Photograph of Carp River Forge — Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jackson Iron Company Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Carp River Forge is an abandoned iron forge located along the Carp River on the grounds of the Michigan Iron Industry Museum, at 73 Forge Road near Negaunee, Michigan. It was the first forge constructed in northern Michigan; the site was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Carp River Forge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette County · listed in 1975 · 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. N of Negaunee limits off SR 492, Negaunee, 49866
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. site
Township. Negaunee township
National Register reference number. 75000957 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Jackson Iron Company Site between 1992 and 2019, burning about 45 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/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 September 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARP BRIDGE
28 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MCCLURE BOAT LAUNCH
12 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 June 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 104 workings within 5 miles of Jackson Iron Company Site: 63 past producers, 22 occurrences, 13 prospects, 5 producers. 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Krygorski Const Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Copper and Zinc Prospect	Copper, Zinc	Occurrence
Unnamed Copper&Lead&Zinc Prospect	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Unnamed Lead Prospect	Lead	Occurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Copper Deposit	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Lightning	Negaunee	$20,000	Lightning struck a power pole outside a residence in Negaunee. The lightning bolt traveled into the residence igniting a fire.
May 2007	Hail	Negaunee	$6,000	Most 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$3,000	Several sources reported multiple trees and large limbs down across the city of Negaunee.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$1,000	Law enforcement reported a tree down from thunderstorm winds across Miller Road in New Buffalo location near Negaunee.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$500	There 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	$500	WLUC-TV6 reported a large diameter maple tree snapped along East Peck Street in Negaunee.
May 2018	Hail	Negaunee	-	One inch diameter hail was observed a few blocks just to the north of downtown Negaunee.
June 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	A NWS employee reported nickel-sized hail in Negaunee with a few hailstones just under an inch in diameter.
June 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	A NWS employee observed dime-sized hail in Negaunee.
June 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	An amateur radio delayed report estimated one inch diameter hail in Negaunee. There were several dents observed on a car.
July 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	The spotter in Negaunee observed pea to nickel sized hail.
July 2016	Hail	Negaunee	-	There was a delayed public report of quarter-sized hail near Negaunee.
July 2012	Hail	Negaunee	-	A National Weather Service employee measured dime sized hail and wind gusts to around 45 mph in Negaunee.
October 2012	Hail	Negaunee	-	Hail to one inch in diameter was reported near Negaunee.
October 2012	Hail	Negaunee	-	Penny-sized hail was reported in Negaunee.
July 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	Observed at WFO Marquette.
July 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	Observed at WFO Marquette.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Negaunee	-	Trees fell across power lines.
July 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Negaunee	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Negaunee Fire Station	2.6 miles	2004
Negaunee Downtown Historic District	2.6 miles	2021
Negaunee State Bank Building	2.6 miles	1995
Marquette and Western Railroad Negaunee Freight Depot	2.7 miles	2008
Sundberg Block	2.8 miles	2011
Jackson Mine	3.1 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000957 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marquette County	All 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.