BlockFrom the record
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Vilas County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Voss' Birchwood Lodge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Address. 5500-5518 USH 51, 5534-5537 Henry Voss, 12958-12994 Ruth Voss & 12930-12954 Palmer Lns., Manitowish Waters, 54545
- When was it listed? June 2018
- Category. district
- Town. Manitowish Waters town
- National Register reference number. 100002554 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
64 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Voss' Birchwood Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | TIE DOWN CHAINBREAK |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BLUE BAYOU WHITE PINE |
| 6 July 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SPIDERS EAST & WEST |
| 6 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FRANDY FIREWORKS |
| 5 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Great Lakes Agency | TROUT LANDING |
| 3 July 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | BIRCH HILL RD |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Voss' Birchwood Lodge: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Island Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Little Papoose Lake Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Little Papoose Lake Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Maple Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| McKinney Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Vance Lake Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manitowish Waters, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2013 | Lightning | Manitowish Waters | $2,000 | Lightning struck an electrical regulator on a house, causing a fire. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Manitowish Waters. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees as the storm passed through Manitowish Waters. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Manitowish Waters area in western Vilas County. The storms also produced pea size hail. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines around Manitowish Waters and scattered other locations in Vilas County. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Manitowish Waters | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manitowish Waters | - | 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 100002554 in Record Group 79. |
| Vilas County | All 15 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.