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Photograph of IXL Historical Museum
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Building

Built in 1982 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The IXL Historical Museum is a historic office building, residence, and museum complex in Hermansville, Michigan, United States. The main building was constructed as the headquarters for the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company before it became a museum.”

Wikipedia article IXL Historical Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Menominee County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1982, Queen Anne style.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N5551 River St., Meyer Township, Hermansville, 49847
  • When was it listed? July 1991
  • Category. building
  • Township. Meyer township
  • When was it built? 1982
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 91000901 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company Office Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLOPPY HAWK
15 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRAY FIELD
16 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMEYER TOWNSHIP FD 0000017 - 2019
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPALDING TOWNSHIP FD 22 - 2020
14 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRIDAY FUNDAY

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this property

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hermansville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHermansville$10,000The Delta County Dispatch reported that a tree had fallen on a van on French Town Road near Hermansville.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHermansville$1,000Seven large trees were blown down in the Meyer Township Cemetery in Hermansville, one of which was a 60-foot, 40-inch diameter basswood.
May 2018HailHermansville-One inch diameter hail was reported by the public at Hermansville.
June 2008HailHermansville-Large hail was also accompanied by strong winds.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHermansville-Numerous trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000901 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Menominee CountyAll 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.
  • 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.