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One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Jacksonport Wharf Archeological District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- Address. Off Cty. Rd. V at Lakeside Park in Lake Michigan, Jacksonport
- When was it listed? February 2012
- Category. district
- Town. Jacksonport town
- National Register reference number. 12000053 - 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.
The ground it stands on
2,733 wordsThe chapter on Jacksonport Town in History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names Jacksonport. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
If an account could be compiled of that now forgotten period when Jacksonport was occupied by the redmen, its history would probably be more interesting than that of any part of the county. There is no doubt that here in the northeastern part of the town and at the mouth of Hein's Creek, emptying out of Kangaroo Lake, were two or three of the largest and most permanent Indian villages in the county.
Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.
The history of the present Jacksonport is mild and peaceful compared to that of its former occupants. It is a history which deals with cordwood, corn and clover. The first white men came here for the sake of the cordwood and they stayed for the sake of the clover and corn. From being a lightly esteemed slashing in the wilderness Jacksonport has become a highly important and fruitful
Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Jacksonport Town - 2,733 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Fires near this property
5 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonport Wharf Archeological District between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 671 |
| 3 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1926 |
| 13 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1932 |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 20 |
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1912 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonport Wharf Archeological District: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lautenbach Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Door County Highway Dept. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Parent Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonport, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Jacksonport. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines around and north of Jacksonport. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Jacksonport. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Jacksonport. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Jacksonport. The time of this report was estimated based on radar data. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonport | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Jacksonport | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonport Wharf Archaeological District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) | 0.1 miles | 2015 | |
| AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck | 4.1 miles | 2013 | |
| SUCCESS (scow schooner) Shipwreck | 4.7 miles | 2015 | |
 | Globe Hotel | 6.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Baileys Harbor Town Hall-McArdle Library | 6.4 miles | 2000 |
 | August Zahn Balcksmith Shop and House | 6.5 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000053 in Record Group 79. |
| Door County | All 68 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.