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Photograph of Gros Cap Cemetery
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gros Cap Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Gros Cap Cemetery, once known as the Western Cemetery, is a cemetery located southeast of Gros Cap, Michigan on US 2. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the United States to be continuously used, and a portion is contained in the Gros Cap Archaeological District.”

Wikipedia article Gros Cap Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac County · listed in 1971 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SE of Gros Cap on U.S. 2, Gros Cap, 49781
  • When was it listed? April 1971
  • Category. site
  • Township. Moran township
  • National Register reference number. 71000406 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Gros Cap Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST IGNACE VFD 2019077 - 2019
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGROS CAP
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestAIRPORT
14 July 2001Smokingunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCYCLIST SMELLS SMOKE
5 June 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresHiawatha National ForestLANTS
18 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestOLD #9
13 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGROS CAP FIRE
25 May 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestCHEESEMAN MARSH

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 Gros Cap Cemetery: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pryor and Reavie Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Whitehead Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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

4 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
Sacred Heart-Gros Cap Church1.6 miles2016
St. Ignace Mission2.7 miles1966
St. Helena Island Light Station3.3 miles1988
John Chambers House3.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000406 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac CountyAll 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.