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

ANTELOPE (schooner-barge) Shipwreck

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“Antelope was a Great Lakes steamship that later was converted into a schooner barge) and sank in Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands in 1897.”
Wikipedia article Antelope (shipwreck), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Ashland County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 7.5 mi. SE of Michigan Island in L. Superior M, La Pointe
When was it listed? June 2018
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
National Register reference number. 100002610 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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
	MARQUETTE (shipwreck)	3.8 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002610 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.