Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail is an historic complex of governmental buildings located at 700 South Stephenson Avenue in Iron Mountain, Michigan. On May 15, 1980, the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 1980 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 700 S. Stephenson Ave., Iron Mountain, 49801
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
City. Iron Mountain city
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80001852 - 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
9 September 2009	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	BLACK WALNUT
21 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018
17 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DYNAMITE FIRE
17 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BREITUNG TOWNSHIP FD 2019-44 - 2019
16 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020
9 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LARSON'S BAY
5 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DITCH FIRE

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail: 23 past producers, 8 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Niagara Greenstone Deposit	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Caspian Const Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fayas Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Feeder Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Florence County Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Francis Hazewood Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jackie Foster, Inc. Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Leslie Larson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
M-35 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Menominee River Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Mountain, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 1995	Hail	Iron Mountain	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Iron Mountain Central Historic District	0.3 miles	2013
Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital	0.5 miles	2022
Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine	0.6 miles	1981
Immaculate Conception Church	1.1 miles	1990
Ardis Furnace	1.5 miles	1972
Upper Twin Falls Bridge	4.3 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001852 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dickinson County	All 7 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.