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Photograph of Paulson House
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Paulson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Paulson House in Au Train, Michigan was built in 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a state of Michigan Historic site in 1972.”

Wikipedia article Paulson House (Au Train, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Alger County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. S of AuTrain on USFS Rd. 2278 in Hiawatha National Forest, AuTrain, 49806
  • When was it listed? November 1972
  • Category. building
  • Township. Au Train township
  • National Register reference number. 72000590 - 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Paulson House between 1998 and 2011, burning about 1 acre in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 July 2011Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestBALLFIELD
19 May 1998Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMS
29 March 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHiawatha National ForestNARROWS FIELD #1

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paulson House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alger Co PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alger 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

3 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
M-94 (old)-Au Train River Bridge1.9 miles1999
Bay Furnace7.3 miles1971
Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light7.9 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000590 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alger CountyAll 14 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.