Manistique Pumping Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Manistique Pumping Station is an industrial waterworks building located on Deer Street in Manistique, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”
Wikipedia article Manistique Pumping Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Schoolcraft County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Deer St., Manistique, 49854
When was it listed? October 1981
Category. structure
City. Manistique city
National Register reference number. 81000316 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Manistique Pumping Station between 1994 and 2019, burning about 29 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
29 August 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHOTGUN FIRE
21 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201916 - 2019
2 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 June 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Manistique Pumping Station: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Dolomite. 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
White Marble Lime Co.Quarry	Dolomite	Past Producer
Fred Fitzgerald Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stoney Cut No. 19 Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this property

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manistique, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	$2,000	There was a delayed report from the local hospital emergency coordinator of several trees down in and around Manistique resulting in power outages around town and at the hospital.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	$2,000	Trees and power lines down near Indian Lake.
August 2020	Hail	Manistique	-	There was a public report of nickel-sized hail in Manistique.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	Manistique	-	A trained spotter measured 2.46 inches of rainfall in Manistique in less than 12 hours.
December 2015	Heavy Rain	Manistique	-	Two-day rainfall totals across the county generally ranged between two and three inches with the highest amounts reported near Manistique in southern Schoolcraft County.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Manistique	-	There was a public report of 2.79 inches of rain at Manistique in approximately 10 hours. Germfask measured 2.56 inches over the same period.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	-	Two large trees down
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	-	A few large trees blown down along Highway M-94 just north of the Indian River Bridge.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	-	Trees were blown down across power lines.
July 2004	Hail	Manistique	-	Golf ball-sized hail was reported.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	-	A 61 mph wind gust was recorded.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Manistique	-	Trees and power lines were blown down. Broken power lines started a fire.
July 2006	Hail	Manistique	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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
	Manistique East Breakwater Light	1.3 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000316 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoolcraft County	All 4 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.