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Photograph of South Range Community Building
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Range Community Building

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The South Range Community Building is a community center located on Trimountain Avenue in South Range, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”

Wikipedia article South Range Community Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1935.

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. Trimountain Ave., South Range, 49963
  • When was it listed? April 1981
  • Category. building
  • Township. Adams township
  • When was it built? 1935
  • National Register reference number. 81000310 - 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of South Range Community Building between 1994 and 2019, burning about 14 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANCOCK FD 0000025 - 2018
8 May 1994Debris and open burning7.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDA
24 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURONTOWN FIRE/RESCUE 0000023 - 2018
14 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of South Range Community Building: 31 past producers, 11 prospects, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Sturgeon Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Isle RoyaleCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1853
Isle Royale AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1968
Isle Royale MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1885
SuperiorCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1908
Baltic PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dodgeville Pit and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
G and S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gedvillas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Range, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2007: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007HailSouth Range-no account filed
October 2007HailSouth Range-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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kaleva Templeunder 500 feet1982
Painesdale2.5 miles1993
Lieblein House4.7 miles1980
Old Main, Suomi College4.7 miles1972
Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall4.8 miles1981
Hancock Central High School4.8 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000310 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton CountyAll 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.
  • 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.