Copper Falls State Park

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Copper Falls State Park is a state park in Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States. It contains a section of the Bad River and its tributary the Tylers Forks, which flow through a gorge and drop over several waterfalls.”
Wikipedia article Copper Falls State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Ashland County · listed in 2005 · category: Site · built in 1929.

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

The listing

Address. WI 169, 1.8 mi. NE of Mellen, Morse, 54846
When was it listed? December 2005
Category. site
Town. Morse town
When was it built? 1929
National Register reference number. 05001425 - 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Copper Falls State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	34
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2007	Natural	3.6 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Copper Falls State Park: 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Ashland Black Granite Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Anderson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Ashland County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ashland County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ashland County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ashland County Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Camp Four Creek Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Copper Falls State Park Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Dale Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Dales Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morse, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 tornado. 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 2010	Tornado (EF2)	Morse	-	There was significant damage to trees near Dry Lake Road, with evidence suggesting EF2 tornado damage.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mellen City Hall	3.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001425 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashland County	All 32 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.