CITY OF MILWAUKEE

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“SS City of Milwaukee is a Great Lakes railroad car ferry that once plied Lake Michigan, often between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was built in 1931 for the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and is the only pre-1940s ship of this type to survive.”
Wikipedia article SS City of Milwaukee, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Benzie County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Marine Terminal Railyard, E. slip, Manistee, 49635
When was it listed? December 1990
Category. structure
City. Frankfort city
National Register reference number. 90002221 - 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of CITY OF MILWAUKEE between 2001 and 2019, burning about 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
13 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000031 - 2018
27 May 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000036 - 2019
25 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000026 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Benzie County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of CITY OF MILWAUKEE: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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
	Benzie County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Walter Rohn Property	Silica	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Benzie 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
Frankfort Land Company House	0.3 miles	1995
Navigation Structures at Frankfort Harbor	0.5 miles	1997
Frankfort North Breakwater Light	0.7 miles	2005
Point Betsie Light Station	4.4 miles	1984
Gwen Frostic Studio	5.0 miles	2021
Watervale Historic District	5.3 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90002221 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benzie County	All 9 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.