Big Traverse Bay Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Big Traverse Bay Historic District is a historic district located east of Lake Linden, Michigan at the mouth of the Traverse River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Big Traverse Bay Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. E of Lake Linden at mouth of Traverse River, Lake Linden, 49945
When was it listed? November 1975
Category. district
Township. Schoolcraft township
National Register reference number. 75000946 - 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

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Big Traverse Bay Historic District between 1996 and 2008, burning about 396 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2

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
8 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	388 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RICE LAKE 2
24 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLUEBERRY HILL
11 August 2008	Smoking	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RICE LAKE III
22 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 May 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Linden, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	$2,000	The observer in Lake Linden reported a loss of power with trees fallen on power lines.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	$1,000	Law enforcement dispatch reported a power line down at the intersection of 9th Street and Calumet Street in Lake Linden.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	$1,000	Several trees and power lines downed.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	-	Large limbs were reported down in the Hubbell/Lake Linden area along with minor street flooding.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	-	Three inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	-	Winds damage with trees down along Post Road.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000946 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton County	All 41 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.
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.