Painesdale

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Painesdale is an unincorporated community in Houghton County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2020 census, Painesdale had a population of 336.”
Wikipedia article Painesdale, Michigan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Area encompassing Painesdale streets and the Champion Mine, Painesdale, 49955
When was it listed? July 1993
Category. district
Township. Adams township
National Register reference number. 93000623 - 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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Painesdale between 2001 and 2019, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
26 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FREDA
6 October 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Painesdale: 19 past producers, 6 prospects, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Superior	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1904, 1908
G and S Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moilanen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Baltic Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Houghton Co Road Commission Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Houghton Co Road Commission Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Atlantic	Copper	Past Producer	1865, 1866
Atlantic Amygdaloid	Copper	Past Producer	1855, 1917
Atlantic Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1866, 1910
Atlantic Section 16 Exploration	Copper	Prospect	1907

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Painesdale, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Painesdale	-	Observers measured 2 to 3 inches of rainfall across Houghton County.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
South Range Community Building	2.5 miles	1981
Kaleva Temple	2.5 miles	1982
County Road C11-Pike River Bridge	6.3 miles	1999
Chassell School Complex	6.8 miles	2009
Lieblein House	7.2 miles	1980
Old Main, Suomi College	7.2 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000623 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton County	All 41 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.