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Photograph of Jackson Mine
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Jackson Mine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Jackson Mine is an open pit iron mine in Negaunee, Michigan, extracting resources from the Marquette Iron Range. The first iron mine in the Lake Superior region, Jackson Mine was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.”

Wikipedia article Jackson Mine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette County · listed in 1971 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. W of Negaunee, Negaunee, 49866
  • When was it listed? September 1971
  • Category. site
  • City. Negaunee city
  • National Register reference number. 71000414 - 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Jackson Mine between 1994 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARP BRIDGE
29 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMC AGAIN
27 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISHPEMING CITY FD 0000033 - 2018
23 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPALMER FD 0620194 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 151 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 151 workings within 5 miles of Jackson Mine: 102 past producers, 19 prospects, 14 occurrences, 11 producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Copper, Gold. 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
Krygorski Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Superior Gold & Silver ExplorationGold, SilverProspect1889
Unnamed Gold and Copper ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this property

22 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Negaunee, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 16 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2008LightningNegaunee$20,000Lightning struck a power pole outside a residence in Negaunee. The lightning bolt traveled into the residence igniting a fire.
May 2007HailNegaunee$6,000Most hailstones were half an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, but a few stones were three inches in diameter and shattered car windows.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNegaunee$3,000Several sources reported multiple trees and large limbs down across the city of Negaunee.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNegaunee$1,000Law enforcement reported a tree down from thunderstorm winds across Miller Road in New Buffalo location near Negaunee.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNegaunee$500There were social media photos of a few tree limbs down in a backyard in Negaunee. The time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNegaunee$500WLUC-TV6 reported a large diameter maple tree snapped along East Peck Street in Negaunee.
May 2018HailNegaunee-One inch diameter hail was observed a few blocks just to the north of downtown Negaunee.
June 2016HailNegaunee-A NWS employee reported nickel-sized hail in Negaunee with a few hailstones just under an inch in diameter.
June 2016HailNegaunee-A NWS employee observed dime-sized hail in Negaunee.
June 2016HailNegaunee-An amateur radio delayed report estimated one inch diameter hail in Negaunee. There were several dents observed on a car.
July 2016HailNegaunee-The spotter in Negaunee observed pea to nickel sized hail.
July 2016HailNegaunee-There was a delayed public report of quarter-sized hail near Negaunee.
July 2012HailNegaunee-A National Weather Service employee measured dime sized hail and wind gusts to around 45 mph in Negaunee.
October 2012HailNegaunee-Hail to one inch in diameter was reported near Negaunee.
October 2012HailNegaunee-Penny-sized hail was reported in Negaunee.
July 2007HailNegaunee-Observed at WFO Marquette.
July 2007HailNegaunee-Observed at WFO Marquette.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNegaunee-Trees fell across power lines.
July 2007HailNegaunee-no account filed
May 2007HailNegaunee-no account filed
May 2007HailNegaunee-no account filed
June 2007HailNegaunee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000414 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marquette CountyAll 40 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.