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Thomas H. Hoatson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“Hoatson House is a house located at 320 Tamarack Street in Laurium, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”

Wikipedia article Thomas H. Hoatson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Hoatson, Thomas H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 320 Tamarack St., Laurium, 49913
  • When was it listed? December 1994
  • Category. building
  • Charter township. Calumet charter township
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94001426 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Thomas H. Hoatson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
10 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
7 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALUMET VILLAGE FD 0081219 - 2019
26 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
2 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSLASHER
5 June 1993Smoking1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Thomas H. Hoatson House: 49 past producers, 10 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Silver, Nickel, Copper. 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
Haltunen Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspectSulfides
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspect
Centennial No.2Copper, SilverPast Producer1863, 1904
WolverineCopper, SilverPast Producer1882, 1898
Allouez Conglomerate No 1 & 2Copper, SilverPast Producer1830
Centennial MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1869, 1920
Kearsarge AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1887
Kearsarge MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerLode
La Salle MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1910, 1920

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurium, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindLaurium$50,000A damage path stretched from Mine Street through the intersection of US-41 and Church Street in North Calumet. The damage path was oriented from southwest to northeast and estimated to be one-quarter mile wide. Metal building housing a travel trailer destroyed. Several trees estimated to be between 18 to 24 inches in diameter were uprooted. A drill shop roof near the elementary school sustained significant damage.
September 2013LightningLaurium$5,000A lightning strike blew holes in the steeple of the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's Church in Calumet. The roofing and underlying wood were shattered.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLaurium$2,000Power lines were reported down in Calumet. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLaurium$1,500Home on Mine Street sustained damage. Windows were partially broken and garage door was bowing inward. Rollers were blown off the garage door. Garage was shifted one inch off of foundation. Garage door and damaged windows were on the windward side of house facing the southwest.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLaurium$1,000Multiple locations along Caledonia Street had tree damage. One house had a tree branch 1.5 feet in diameter fall onto a deck. Other locations had 6 to 12-inch diameter branches down. All of the branches were broken off in a north to northeast direction.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLaurium$500There was a report via social media of large branches of tall maple trees down in the front yard of a home in Calumet. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
September 2017HailLaurium-A trained spotter in Laurium reported hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2012Heavy RainLaurium-The observer near Calumet measured 1.53 inches of rain in one hour.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLaurium-A small wooden shed rolled once over a fence at Calumet Elementary School. The shed was about 8 feet high and 12 feet wide. Some playground equipment at the school was also tipped over.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLaurium-Power lines were down in Laurium with no power in the city.
July 2006Heavy RainLaurium-3.67 inches of rain fell mainly between 3 and 5 am EST.
July 2006HailLaurium-no account filed

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Laurium Historic District0.1 miles2005
Vivian, Jr., J., and Company Building0.1 miles2003
Calumet and Hecla Industrial District0.6 miles1974
Calumet Downtown Historic District1.0 miles1974
Calumet Fire Station1.0 miles1974
Calumet Theatre1.1 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton CountyAll 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.