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Photograph of Iron Mountain Central Historic District
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Iron Mountain Central Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Iron Mountain Central Historic District is a historic district, broadly located between Fleshiem and C Streets and between Iron Mountain and Stockbridge Avenues in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The district covers the city's central business district and adjacent areas.”

Wikipedia article Iron Mountain Central Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Iron Mountain Central Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 373 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Debris and open burning3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK WALNUT
21 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018
17 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesDYNAMITE FIRE
17 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDICKINSON 0003
30 August 2012Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBALZA
16 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020
9 July 2011Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLARSON'S BAY

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Iron Mountain Central Historic District: 22 past producers, 8 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Niagara Greenstone DepositStone, DimensionOccurrence
Caspian Const Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fayas Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Feeder Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Florence County Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Francis Hazewood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jackie Foster, Inc. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leslie Larson Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
M-35 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menominee River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Mountain, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995HailIron Mountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail0.3 miles1980
Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine0.4 miles1981
Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital0.7 miles2022
Immaculate Conception Church1.1 miles1990
Ardis Furnace1.5 miles1972
Upper Twin Falls Bridge4.1 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000763 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dickinson CountyAll 7 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.