Bethany Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 184 Beechwood Rd., Iron River, 49935
When was it listed? December 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Iron County MRA
Township. Iron River township
National Register reference number. 83003664 - 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

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bethany Lutheran Church between 2010 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
5 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	LANDING
29 May 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	COOKS BRIDGE 2
18 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	COOKS RUN 2012
18 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	COOKS RUN 2
7 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	IRON LAKE
29 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	SMOKEY LAKE
28 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	COOKS BRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bethany Lutheran Church: 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Champion Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Iron River Lumber & Fuel Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mccolman Expl	Iron	Prospect
Pewabic Expl	Iron	Prospect
Pewabic West Expl	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron River, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 20 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Hail	Iron River	$4,100,000	no account filed
May 1998	Lightning	Iron River	$50,000	A resort cabin burned down after it was struck by lightning.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	$30,000	Storms uprooted numerous birch trees and caused some roof damage to houses in the Homer area near Iron River.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree onto a house near Iron River on the evening of the 31st.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	$5,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	$2,000	The Iron County Sheriff reported several trees down in the Iron River area.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	$1,000	Trees down on power line near Smoky Lake.
June 2021	Hail	Iron River	-	One inch diameter hail reported in Iron River via social media.
September 2015	Hail	Iron River	-	The Iron County Police reported dime sized hail in Iron River from 0900 to 0910 CDT.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Several three-inch diameter branches blown down.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Several trees down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Several one-inch diameter branches down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	89 mph measured wind gust.
October 2005	Heavy Rain	Iron River	-	Two to three inches of rain caused minor street flooding.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Wind gust to 59 mph. Four-inch diameter tree branches down on Highway M-189.
April 2004	Hail	Iron River	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2004	Hail	Iron River	-	Penny sized hail was reported.
April 2004	Hail	Iron River	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2002	Hail	Iron River	-	One inch hail was reported.
May 2002	Hail	Iron River	-	Nickel sized hail was reported.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Large limbs and small trees were blown down.
July 2002	Hail	Iron River	-	One inch hail was reported.
July 2002	Hail	Iron River	-	Nickel sized hail was reported.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Several trees were blown down on Irish Street.
August 2002	Hail	Iron River	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	A 1 foot diameter tree was blown down.
August 2001	Hail	Iron River	-	Nickle sized hail.
September 2000	Hail	Iron River	-	Nickle sized hail reported.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	wind gusts to 60 mph...trees down
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	24 inch diameter trees down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Trees down across CR 643 - power lines down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	12 inch dia. pine tree down across CR 657.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Several trees downed between Iron River and Crystal Falls.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Iron River	-	Trees down.
May 2007	Hail	Iron River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Beechwood Store	0.2 miles	1983
Camp Gibbs	4.0 miles	1994
Nelson E. Fisher House-High Banks	6.0 miles	1983
Van Platen-Fox Lumber Camp Historic Complex	6.2 miles	1983
Cooks Run Trout Feeding Station	6.2 miles	1983
James Mine Historic District	6.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003664 in Record Group 79.
Iron County	All 80 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.