Van Platen-Fox Lumber Camp Historic Complex

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: District.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 281 University Rd., Stambaugh, 49935
When was it listed? December 1983
Category. district
Also known as. Iron County MRA
Township. Stambaugh township
National Register reference number. 83003766 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Van Platen-Fox Lumber Camp Historic Complex between 1994 and 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	SUPERIOR VIEW FIRE
24 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	3213B
11 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	COOKS RUN 3
29 May 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	WHITE PAPER
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
14 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Van Platen-Fox Lumber Camp Historic Complex: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Christiansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stambaugh, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Stambaugh	$10,000	Delayed report of downed trees and power outages at a cabin on Ice Lake. Time estimated from radar.
April 2004	Hail	Stambaugh	-	Golf-ball sized hail was reported.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Stambaugh	-	Trees down on power lines.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Stambaugh	-	10 inch diameter branch fell off at the intersection of Hemlock and Ross.

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

4 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
Cooks Run Trout Feeding Station	1.5 miles	1983
Bethany Lutheran Church	6.2 miles	1983
Beechwood Store	6.4 miles	1983
Forest Route 157-Tamarack River Bridge	6.5 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003766 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.