Menominee County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Menominee County Courthouse is a government building located on Tenth Avenue between Eighth and Tenth Streets in Menominee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974.”
Wikipedia article Menominee County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Menominee County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10th Ave. between 8th and 10th Sts., Menominee, 49858
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. building
City. Menominee city
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Gurdon P. Randall
National Register reference number. 75000958 - 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Menominee County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Fireworks	5
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.2 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BAY SHORE SPOT
26 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	CHERRY COKE
23 August 2004	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Menominee County Courthouse: 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Own Crews	Stone	Unknown
Marinette Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Marinette Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nob Hill Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Park Point Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Sandy Hill Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this property

32 since 1996

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2006	Hail	Menominee	$100,000	Hail up to golf ball size combined with strong winds resulted in significant damage to roofs, siding, and automobiles.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$50,000	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.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$5,000	There were multiple reports of trees down around the Menominee area. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$5,000	A spotter reported several large tree limbs and trees down throughout the city of Menominee.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$4,000	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.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$2,000	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.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$2,000	Top of a pine tree fell on a car on 48th Avenue along the north city limits of Menominee.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$2,000	Numerous 8-inch cedar trees snapped in cemetary near Birch Creek Road and Bay De Noc Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$1,000	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.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	$1,000	Nine-inch diameter birch tree snapped approximately 20 feet from the base. Multiple four-inch diameter trees and branches down.
August 2015	Hail	Menominee	-	Dime sized hail reported near Menominee.
August 2015	Hail	Menominee	-	There were multiple reports of dime to quarter sized hail via social media.
October 2014	Hail	Menominee	-	The Menominee County Sheriff observed the ground completely white with hail. The largest hailstones were one inch in diameter.
October 2014	Hail	Menominee	-	There was a public report of hail covering the ground in Menominee with the largest hailstones 1.5 inches in diameter.
October 2014	Hail	Menominee	-	There were several reports of hail between 0.5 and 1.0 inch in diameter covering the ground in Menominee.
October 2012	Hail	Menominee	-	Penny-sized hail fell for two minutes...then very heavy rain followed.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	-	Five to six-inch diameter tree limbs were reported down in Menominee.
August 2009	Hail	Menominee	-	Most hailstones were one-half inch in diameter with a few three-quarter inch diameter hailstones.
July 2006	Hail	Menominee	-	Hail covering the ground.
July 2006	Hail	Menominee	-	Golfball-sized hail at Birch Creek and County Road 577.
July 2006	Hail	Menominee	-	Two-inch hail found 20 minutes after storm had passed near Highway 41 and Willow Tree Road.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	-	Several trees were blow down across Range Lind Road and Birch Creek Road.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	-	large trees down across highway 581
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	-	12 inch maple tree snapped off.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	-	30 inch diameter... 50 ft tall tree down
August 1998	Funnel Cloud	Menominee	-	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.
July 2011	Hail	Menominee	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Menominee	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Menominee	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Menominee	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Menominee	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Menominee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church	0.1 miles	1995
ALVIN CLARK (schooner)	0.4 miles	1974
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Station	0.5 miles	1982
First Street Historic District	0.6 miles	1974
Menominee Pierhead Light Station	1.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000958 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Menominee County	All 9 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.