Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The Gogebic County Courthouse is a government building located on North Moore Street in Bessemer, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Gogebic County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Gogebic County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000306- 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
13 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Gogebic County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Natural
2
Debris and open burning
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
53 workings within 5 miles of Gogebic County Courthouse: 37 past producers, 12 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bessemer, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 heavy rain.
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.
The Gogebic County Dispatch reported power lines down in Bessemer. Wind gusts at the Ironwood ASOS were measured at 50 mph, but were probably higher in Bessemer where wind damage occurred.
The sheriff received reports of numerous trees and power lines downed across Gogebic county. The public also reported an 8-inch diameter dead tree snapped at the base and a portable basketball hoop that broke in half.
There was a delayed report from Ottawa National Forest Park rangers of large tree limbs in excess of 12 inches snapped at the Black River Harbor Recreational Area campground site.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall of 4 to 6 inches over much of western Gogebic County during the early morning hours of the 29th. Minor street flooding was reported in the Bessemer, Wakefield and Marenisco areas as well as flooding on Bingham Creek near Lake Gogebic.
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.
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.
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