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Navigation Structures at Harbor Beach Harbor
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“The Navigation Structures at Harbor Beach Harbor are a series of breakwaters located in Lake Huron, on North Lakeshore Drive in Harbor Beach, Michigan. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Navigation Structures at Harbor Beach Harbor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.97000972- 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
3 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Navigation Structures at Harbor Beach Harbor
in 2018, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Navigation Structures at Harbor Beach Harbor: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Harbor Beach, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 waterspout.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A waterspout moved onshore from Harbor Beach harbor. Once the waterspout made landfall, it become classified as a tornado. The tornado moved over the pier and went up a short hill near Water Street, then it dissipated. An elderly couple at an art fair attempted to hold onto belongings and were thrown to the ground with their belongings strewn on top of them. The elderly woman disslocated a shoulder and broke an arm, requireing an overnight hospital stay. One tree was also knocked over and fell onto a van.
A local newspaper article included a photograph of a home burned down. The fire was sparked by an electrical line blown down onto the home by thunderstorm winds. The couple was able to escape the home without injury. The value of the home itself was $150K, not including its contents. The couple lost all of their belongings in the fire. Total damages were roughly estimated at $200K.
Local newspaper articles reported that the storms left behind a trail of destruction through Harbor Beach, with numerous trees, some very large, ripped from their roots and power lines down through the entire area. The storms left the entire city without power. Many vehicles and structures, including homes, were damaged by fallen debris. Several boats were tossed about and washed ashore on Sand Point. An NWS survey confirmed that this area was struck by a microburst with winds up to 100 MPH. Remarkably, No injuries or deaths were reported. Total property damage in Harbor Beach was estimated at $75K.
A tornado tracked near Rapson Road from Minden to Klug Roads. Widespread tree damage was reported, along with minor property damage. One property alone along Rapson Road lost 44 trees, many of which were more than 100 years old and very large. Outbuildings were moved off their foundations, with a portion of a metal roof on a barn torn off.
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.
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.
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