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Photograph of Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District
Photograph by Milwaukee Public Library, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 sitess as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N. Duluth Ave., Sturgeon Bay, 54235
  • When was it listed? March 2003
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
  • Town. Nasewaupee town
  • National Register reference number. 03000167 - 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.

The ground it stands on

24 words

This property stands in Nasewaupee Town. History Of Door County, published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Nasewaupee Town - 24 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources134
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources91
8 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources580
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources610
17 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources497
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources440
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources439
29 April 2018Smoking1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources71

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Bullhead Point Historical and Archeological District: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Adamski Fisher Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Eliason QuarryStoneUnknown
Elliason QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jutting Point Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kiehnau QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Reef Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Walker Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bissen QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Mohr PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Door County

Storms near this property

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sturgeon Bay, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 32 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 lightning, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay3 hurt, $150,000no account filed
August 2003LightningSturgeon Bay1 hurtno account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay1 hurtno account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$150,000no account filed
September 1994Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$25,000no account filed
July 2011LightningSturgeon Bay$10,000Lightning struck a tree, followed the copper in the underground gas propane line to a house, and ignited the wooden support holding up a pipe in the basement.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$2,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay$2,000no account filed
July 2023HailSturgeon Bay-Penny size hail fell in Sturgeon Bay.
July 2023HailSturgeon Bay-Half dollar size hail fell near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2023HailSturgeon Bay-Penny size hail fell near Sturgeon Bay.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees just north of Sturgeon Bay.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines near Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay, and across Door County. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
April 2020HailSturgeon Bay-Golf ball size hail fell in Sturgeon Bay.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage across Door County.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Sturgeon Bay, Baileys Harbor, Fish Creek and Sister Bay. The time of this report was estimated for Sturgeon Bay based on radar data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Thunderstorm winds downed trees just north of Sturgeon Bay, on Reynolds Road, and just south of Sturgeon Bay, near Clay Banks.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Sturgeon Bay and across much of southern Door County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Tree uprooted and landed on wires.
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-Golf ball size hail.
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-Ping pong ball size hail covered the ground.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Straight-line winds from thunderstorms knocked down several trees in central Door County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-Trees and branches down.
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 2007HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
October 2006HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
May 2002HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 2002HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 2001Funnel CloudSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2001HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 2000HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 1999Funnel CloudSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 1999Funnel CloudSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 1999WaterspoutSturgeon Bay-no account filed
September 1999WaterspoutSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1998HailSturgeon Bay-no account filed
June 1998LightningSturgeon Bay-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSturgeon Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Door 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
JOYS (Shipwreck)0.6 miles2007
PRIDE Shipwreck (Schooner)0.9 miles2024
Sturgeon Bay Bridge1.1 miles2008
Third Avenue Historic District1.1 miles1983
Sturgeon Bay Post Office1.1 miles2000
Carnegie Free Library1.1 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Door CountyAll 68 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.