Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The First Street Historic District, also known as the Main Street Historic District, is a commercial historic district in Menominee, Michigan containing over 40 structures spread over a 29 acres (12 ha) area. The district is roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, the north side of Tenth Avenue, Second Street, and the Green Bay Shoreline; the boundaries are approximately equivalent to what is locally known as the Historic Waterfront Downtown.”
Wikipedia article First Street Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Menominee County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
National Register reference number.74000997- 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
74 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 74 fires within 5 miles of First Street Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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
22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Railroad operations and maintenance
11
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Smoking
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Fireworks
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of First Street Historic District: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Menominee, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 16 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Widespread tree damage occurred...most extensively in the 1st Street area. A tree fell on a car and another had roots exposed. A boat and a trailer were overturned. Two trees fell into power lines and a power pole...snapping the pole.
Many roads closed across southern Menominee County due to trees and power lines down. A few trees were on fire. Three-foot diameter older willow tree snapped near base at Highway 41 and Willow Tree Road.
Three trees of unknown diameter blown down in Menominee along with a number of large tree branches. County dispatch reports a metal utility shed was also blown out of a yard.
Winds from a strong thunderstorm caused a power outage in far southeast Menominee County. The wind gust at the nearby marine observation platform measured at 46 mph.
Funnel cloud observed moving to the southeast and passing three miles north of Menominee. It formed a waterspout as it entered the Bay of Green Bay 3.5 miles east of Menominee. The waterspout traversed the Bay of Green Bay and entered Wisconsin's Door Peninsula 15 miles southeast of Menominee, Michigan, as an F2 tornado.
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
5 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.
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.
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