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OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Ocean Wave was a scow schooner that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Door County, Wisconsin, United States. In 2006 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Ocean Wave (shipwreck), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2006 · category: Site.

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 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. off Whitefish Point, Lake Michigan
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
Town. Sevastopol town
National Register reference number. 06000639 - 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

3,874 words

The chapter on Sevastopol Town in History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names Lake Michigan. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

But not all the land in Sevastopol is suited to agriculture. Along Lake Michigan is a broad belt of low and indifferent land which has not yet been put to any important use. Here, however, is where Sevastopol's first permanent settler made his home.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

Up in the northeastern corner of the town lies a large and beautiful lake, known as Clarks Lake. The northern part of the lake extends into the Town of Jacksonport. Between this lake and Lake Michigan lies a tract of inferior low-lying land. Here, on the shore of Lake Michigan he settled and developed a very interesting fishing station.

Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.

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 Sevastopol Town - 3,874 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck) in 2018, burning under an 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
Fireworks	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
7 July 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	671

Every fire 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

4 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
AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck	3.1 miles	2013
SUCCESS (scow schooner) Shipwreck	3.3 miles	2015
Jacksonport Wharf Archaeological District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)	6.7 miles	2015
Jacksonport Wharf Archeological District	6.8 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Door County	All 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.