Photograph of Bewabic State Park — Photograph by EC Kropp Postcard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bewabic Park

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Bewabic State Park is a public recreation area covering 315 acres (127 ha) on the shore of Fortune Lake, four miles (6.4 km) west of Crystal Falls in Iron County, Michigan. The state park's rich Civilian Conservation Corps history is evidenced by the CCC structures still in use.”
Wikipedia article Bewabic State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 2016 · category: District · built in 1923.

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

The listing

Address. 1933 West US 2, Crystal Falls Township, 49920
When was it listed? April 2016
Category. district
Township. Crystal Falls township
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 16000179 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Bewabic Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIND ROAD
7 July 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 179 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 179 workings within 5 miles of Bewabic Park: 68 prospects, 57 occurrences, 50 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blue Lake Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oss Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Paint Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Williams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Alpha Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1882, 1903
Alpha Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1903
Balkan-Judson Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1913
Book Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1942, 1958
Book Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1942, 1943

Every working recorded in Iron 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
US 2-Iron River Bridge	3.6 miles	1999
Alpha Public Buildings Historic Complex	3.7 miles	1983
First National Bank Building	3.8 miles	1983
Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek Bridge	3.9 miles	1999
Steven Royce House	4.2 miles	1983
Courthouse Residential Historic District	4.4 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000179 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iron County	All 80 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.