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Photograph of Eagle River Historic District
Photograph by Tim Kiser ( w:User:Malepheasant ), CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eagle River Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Eagle River Historic District is a historic district located in Eagle River, Michigan, roughly covering Front Street, 2nd Street, 3rd Street, 4th Street, 5th Street, and Main Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”

Wikipedia article Eagle River Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Eagle River Historic District between 2002 and 2019, burning about 43 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 ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2019
3 June 2002Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2010Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIFF'S DRIVE
30 October 2008Recreation and ceremony32 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNONAME

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Eagle River Historic District: 34 past producers, 9 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CliffSilver, CopperPast Producer1844, 1847
Fissure MinesCopper, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer1845, 1890
Phoenix AshbedCopper, SilverPast Producer1855
Central Cu MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Cliff Copper MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Phoenix Cu MineCopper, SilverProducer
Phoenix Fissure MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1844, 1931
Arnold Copper MineCopperPast Producer1860, 1900
Arnold Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Babbitt FissureCopperProducer1880

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle River, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEagle River-8 to 10 inch diameter trees downed

Every storm recorded in Keweenaw 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Church of the Assumption1.9 miles2000
Sand Hills Light Station3.7 miles1994
Central Mine Methodist Church4.3 miles1970
Central Mine Historic District4.6 miles1974
Holy Redeemer Church6.8 miles1972
Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse6.9 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84001746 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw CountyAll 31 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.