Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“Curry House is a private house located at 631 East McLeod Avenue in Ironwood, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Solomon S. Curry House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Gogebic County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.82002833- 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
23 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Solomon S. Curry House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Arson/incendiarism
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
41 workings within 5 miles of Solomon S. Curry House: 30 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 unknowns.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Iron. 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
Ironwood, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 flood.
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.
Rapid melting of significant late season snow pack caused moderate flooding of roads in the Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield and Marenisco areas from the 28th into the 30th. Minor flooding continued into early May. Some flooding of basements was also reported. A portion of Highway M-28 was closed in Wakefield due to flooding from Sunday Lake. Governor Rick Snyder declared a state of disaster in Gogebic County where nearly one million dollars of property damage occurred due to the flooding mainly to roadway infrastructure.
Possible roads washed out near Cloverland Cinemas per Public Safety Radio. Much of Ironwood, including stores along Highway US-2, was without electricity on Sunday evening the 17th due to storms and flooding. Homeowners reported flooded basements.
Nearly three inches of heavy rainfall flooded a large section of US-2 from Douglas to Lowell Street in Ironwood. Several houses and building were flooded near Hemlock Street on the west side of Ironwood.
The Gogebic County Sheriff reported widespread trees and power lines down across Ironwood. A spotter also reported 12-inch diameter branches down on McLeod Avenue. Time of the reported was estimated.
A NWS student volunteer in Ironwood reported a large diameter maple tree of one foot in diameter snapped in Ironwood. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
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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