Central Mine Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Central Mine Historic District is a historic district located off US 41 in Upper Michigan. The mine itself was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958, while the surrounding district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Central Mine Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. U.S. 41, Central, 49950
When was it listed? June 1974
Category. district
Township. Houghton township
National Register reference number. 74000991 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Central Mine Historic District between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2019
3 June 2002	Natural	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 May 2015	Natural	5.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON GAP
25 April 2020	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BINGHAM RD
8 October 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SW GRATIOT LAKE
18 October 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Central Mine Historic District: 37 past producers, 12 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Silver, 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
Keweenaw County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phoenix Ashbed	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1855
Central Cu Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Phoenix Cu Mine	Copper, Silver	Producer
Phoenix Fissure Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1844, 1931
543-S	Copper	Producer	1975
Amygdaloid Cu Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Arnold Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1860, 1900
Arnold Cu Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Babbitt Fissure	Copper	Producer	1880

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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
Central Mine Methodist Church	0.2 miles	1970
Church of the Assumption	3.8 miles	2000
Holy Redeemer Church	3.8 miles	1972
Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse	3.9 miles	1972
M 26-Cedar Creek Culvert	4.1 miles	1999
Eagle Harbor Light Station	4.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000991 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw County	All 31 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.