Photograph of Marquette — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

MARQUETTE (shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, Apostle Islands, United States on October 15, 1903. On the day of February 13, 2008 the remains of the Marquette were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article SS Marquette (1881), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Ashland County · listed in 2008 · 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. 5 mi. E. of Michigan Island, Lake Superior, La Pointe
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
National Register reference number. 08000027 - 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.

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Pointe, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	La Pointe	-	Numerous trees were blown down on Madeline Island.
June 2020	Hail	La Pointe	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	La Pointe	-	no account filed
October 2004	Hail	La Pointe	-	no account filed

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
	ANTELOPE (schooner-barge) Shipwreck	3.8 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000027 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.
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.