NORTHERNER Shipwreck (Schooner)

Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Northerner was an 81-foot-long (24.7-meter-long), two-masted schooner. She sank in Lake Michigan on November 29, 1868, five miles east of Grafton, Wisconsin, United States.”
Wikipedia article Northerner (shipwreck), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ozaukee County · listed in 2010 · category: Site · built in 1850.

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 SE of Port Washington Harbor in Lake Michigan, Town of Grafton
When was it listed? December 2010
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
When was it built? 1850
National Register reference number. 10001005 - 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.

Fires near this property

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of NORTHERNER Shipwreck (Schooner) in 2018, burning about 6 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
28 April 2018	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18486
26 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18331
19 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	18296

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee 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

6 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
Port Washington North Breakwater Light	4.9 miles	2018
Edward Dodge House	5.3 miles	1975
Old Ozaukee County Courthouse	5.4 miles	1976
Hoffman House Hotel	5.4 miles	1984
Port Washington Downtown Historic District	5.4 miles	2000
ISLAND CITY (schooner) Shipwreck	5.4 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10001005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozaukee County	All 38 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.