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One of 80 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Caspian Mine Headframe
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Caspian Rd., Caspian, 49915
- When was it listed? December 1983
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Iron County MRA
- City. Caspian city
- National Register reference number. 83003672 - 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
16 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Caspian Mine Headframe between 1993 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2019 | Other causes | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LOG CABIN |
| 8 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0022-19 - 2019 |
| 20 June 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0023-19 - 2019 |
| 6 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4.9 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0002220 - 2020 |
| 26 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0020-19 - 2019 |
| 21 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0019-19 - 2019 |
| 15 May 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST IRON COUNTY FD 0021-18 - 2018 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 578 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 578 workings within 5 miles of Caspian Mine Headframe: 459 prospects, 96 past producers, 15 occurrences, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannon Mine | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Anderson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Caspian Construction Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Highway Us 2 Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Iron County Road Comm. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Proksch No 1 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Arlington Mine | Iron | Prospect | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Aronson Hole 97 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Aronson Iron Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Baker & Oliver Prospect B, F, 01 | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this property
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caspian, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Caspian | $225,000 | Two to seven and a half inches of rain fell over southern Iron County between 2200 EST, July 14 and 300 EST July 15. Considerable damage was done to area roads with many secondary roads down to one lane. Several roads were washed out and closed. Seventy-five homes in southern Iron County had flooded basements and some businesses in the low lying area of downtown Iron River were flooded and closed. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Caspian | - | There was nickel-sized hail reported at Caspian. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Caspian | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dober Mining Company House | 0.4 miles | 1983 | |
| Caspian Community Center | 0.4 miles | 1983 | |
 | Italian Society Duke of Abruzzi Hall | 0.5 miles | 1983 |
 | John W. Hanson House | 1.1 miles | 1983 |
| Hiawatha Mine Number One Complex | 1.1 miles | 1983 | |
 | Joseph Harris House | 1.1 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83003672 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.