Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church is a church located near Jacobsville, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1976 · 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. W of Jacobsville, Jacobsville, 49945
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. building
Township. Torch Lake township
National Register reference number. 76001028 - 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church in 2003, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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	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 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacobsville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacobsville	$30,000	There was a delayed report via social media of multiple large trees down or snapped on either side of the Portage Canal near Jacobsville. Some trees were down on vehicles and structures.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacobsville	$3,000	Trees down across Kuusisto Road and Hidden Acres Road. The Houghton County Emergency Manager also reported trees down and power outages across the county.
October 2017	Flood	Jacobsville	$1,000	A spotter reported a 75-100 foot stretch of water flowing over Bootjack Road at Silver Creek. The flooding resulted from two to three inches of rainfall over a 24-hour period.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacobsville	$1,000	Five nine-inch diameter trees blown down.
July 2016	Hail	Jacobsville	-	The observer near Jacobsville observed nickel-sized hail.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Jacobsville	-	The Jacobsville observer measured one inch of rainfall in 12 hours.
October 2014	Hail	Jacobsville	-	Dime-sized hail was reported by the observer near Jacobsville.
March 2012	Hail	Jacobsville	-	The observer near Chassell reported mainly pea-sized hailstones to a depth of one-half inch. Some of the stones were dime-sized.
July 2011	Hail	Jacobsville	-	Pea to penny-sized hail was observed.
July 2011	Hail	Jacobsville	-	Most of the hail observed was between dime and quarter-sized, but a few stones were the size of golf balls. In addition...wind gusts were estimated around 40 mph.
May 2011	Heavy Rain	Jacobsville	-	Observer east of Chassell measured 1.25 inches of rain. Most of the rain fell within a 15-minute period with rainfall rates of nearly 4 inches per hour recorded.
May 2012	Hail	Jacobsville	-	no account filed

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.

Listed places nearby

3 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
Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light	1.3 miles	2014
Chassell School Complex	6.0 miles	2009
County Road C11-Pike River Bridge	6.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001028 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.