St. Ignace Mission

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1671. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Ignace Mission is located in a municipal park known as Marquette Mission Park. It was the site of a mission established by Jesuit priest, Father Jacques Marquette, and the site of his grave in 1677.”
Wikipedia article St. Ignace Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · built in 1671 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. State and Marquette Sts., Marquette Park, St. Ignace, 49781
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Township. Moran township
When was it built? 1671
National Register reference number. 66000398 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of St. Ignace Mission between 2000 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST IGNACE VFD 2019077 - 2019
7 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	GROS CAP
2 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	AIRPORT
5 June 2014	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	LANTS
13 June 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	GROS CAP FIRE
25 May 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	CHEESEMAN MARSH
24 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	INTERSTATE
20 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	CHEESEMAN

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. Ignace Mission: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pryor and Reavie Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Whitehead Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mackinac 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
John Chambers House	1.0 miles	1982
Gros Cap Cemetery	2.7 miles	1971
Sacred Heart-Gros Cap Church	4.2 miles	2016
Grand Hotel	5.9 miles	1972
St. Helena Island Light Station	5.9 miles	1988
Lawrence Andrew Young Cottage	6.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000398 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac County	All 22 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.