BlockFrom the record
One of 80 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1983 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mansfield Mine Location Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- Address. Stream Rd., Mansfield, 49920
- When was it listed? December 1983
- Category. district
- Also known as. Iron County MRA
- Township. Mansfield township
- National Register reference number. 83003731 - 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
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mansfield Mine Location Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 118 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON 0006 |
| 23 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | M-69 FIRE |
| 19 May 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON 0002 |
| 1 May 2016 | Fireworks | 6.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 86 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Mansfield Mine Location Historic District: 58 prospects, 26 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Diamond, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basalt Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Ellen Kimberlite | Diamond | Past Producer | 1971 | |
| Upper Peninsula Area | Diamond | Prospect | Kimberlite | |
| Armania Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1889, 1914 | |
| Armenia Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1889 | |
| Bird Exploration | Iron | Prospect | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Brule | Iron | Past Producer | 1936 | |
| Caladonia Prospect | Iron | Prospect | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Cayia Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1951, 1954 | |
| Cayia Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1952 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield Road-Michigamme River Bridge | 0.4 miles | 1999 | |
 | William Russell House | 5.6 miles | 1983 |
 | Ernest Diele House | 5.6 miles | 1983 |
| Frank W. Cole House | 5.6 miles | 1983 | |
| John H. Parks Company-Wills Hardware Building | 5.6 miles | 1983 | |
 | Crystal Falls Dam and Power Plant | 5.6 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83003731 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.