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Photograph of Edisen Fishery
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Edisen Fishery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Edisen Fishery is a fishery located in Rock Harbor in the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”

Wikipedia article Edisen Fishery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 1977 · 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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Rock Harbor, Isle Royale National Park
  • When was it listed? March 1977
  • Category. building
  • Township. Houghton township
  • National Register reference number. 77000152 - 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Edisen Fishery between 1998 and 2013, burning about 9 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2006Smokingunder an acreIsle Royale National ParkMOOSE LAKE1
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreIsle Royale National ParkRICHIE EAST
6 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIsle Royale National ParkSARGENT LAKE
2 August 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIsle Royale National ParkPICKEREL C
12 August 2001Natural7.6 acresIsle Royale National ParkLAKEJOHN
23 July 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIsle Royale National ParkTHREEMIJCT
15 June 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIsle Royale National ParkANDERSON WF

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edisen Fishery: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Epidote MineCopperPast Producer1846, 1848
Ransom MineCopperPast ProducerCopper
Saginaw MineCopperPast Producer1875, 1879
Siskowit MineCopperPast Producer1847, 1855

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Rock Harbor Lighthouse0.2 miles1977
Ojibway Fire Tower1.8 miles2021
Minong7.1 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw CountyAll 31 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.