Presque Isle County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Presque Isle County Courthouse, also known as the Onaway Courthouse, is a government building located on the corner of State and Maple Streets in Onaway, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1978 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Presque Isle County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Presque Isle 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. State and Maple Sts., Onaway, 49765
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
City. Onaway city
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 80001889 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Presque Isle County Courthouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 118 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
Debris and open burning	20
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 02
4 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST-WAVERLY FD 2001901 - 2019
19 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 04 - LOADED COOLER
13 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 June 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle 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 Presque Isle County Courthouse: 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
East Branch Limestone Exposure	Limestone, General	Prospect
N.Hackett Lake Clay Pit	Clay	Prospect
Onaway Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Presque Isle County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Presque Isle County

Storms near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onaway, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$12,000	A weighted picnic table was blown into the side of a house. Part of the table penetrated the siding and sheeting of the home, and entered some cabinetry.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$8,000	Multiple trees and power lines were downed in western Presque Isle County.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$8,000	Numerous trees downed.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$7,000	Several trees were downed, across power lines in some areas. A road near Millersburg was briefly blocked.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$6,000	Numerous trees and power lines downed.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$4,000	Several large trees were downed.
August 2003	Lightning	Onaway	$4,000	Lightning struck a tree outside a home. The charge moved through the ground and entered the house, splintering joists in the crawl space and starting a small electrical fire.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	$2,000	Trees downed.
May 2022	Hail	Onaway	-	Facebook photo of 1.5 inch hail at Tomahawk Creek Flooding. Time estimated on radar.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Onaway	-	Several trees down.
May 2013	Hail	Onaway	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Onaway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presque Isle 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Onaway State Park	5.3 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001889 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Presque Isle County	All 13 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.