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One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2017 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
GRACE A. CHANNON (canaller) Shipwreck
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 12.75 Mi. NE of the Bender Park boat launch in L. Michigan, Oak Creek
- When was it listed? December 2017
- Category. site
- Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
- National Register reference number. 100001874 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Creek, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | $25,000 | Powerful thunderstorm winds knocked down a few large trees and powerlines. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | $20,000 | Trees and power lines down on Puetz Rd. and Chicago. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | $15,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts that were estimated at 61 knots (70 mph). This was from the same line of thunderstorms that moved through northern Racine County. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | $10,000 | Powerful thunderstorm winds toppled large trees and damaged power-lines. Estimated wind gusts were on the order of 56 knots (65 mph). |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | $2,000 | Several large tree limbs down. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | Picture with measurement shown. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Creek | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001874 in Record Group 79. |
| Milwaukee County | All 300 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.