BlockFrom the record
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 820 ft. SE. of Whitefish Dunes State Park, Sevastopol, 54235
- When was it listed? July 2013
- Category. site
- Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
- Town. Sevastopol town
- National Register reference number. 13000466 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
3,874 wordsThe chapter on Sevastopol Town in History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 names Sevastopol. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The banner town in Door County is undoubtedly Sevastopol. Here the land is deep, rich and gently rolling, excellently suited to agriculture. Here are many of Wisconsin's largest and best managed orchards. Here the improvements are substantial and the highways excellent. Not many towns in Wisconsin are superior to Sevastopol for farming operations or results.
Passage source: History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917.
But not all the land in Sevastopol is suited to agriculture. Along Lake Michigan is a broad belt of low and indifferent land which has not yet been put to any important use. Here, however, is where Sevastopol's first permanent settler made his home.
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 Sevastopol Town - 3,874 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 AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck between 2018 and 2020, 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
| 26 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 436 |
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1912 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck: 1 past producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Door County Highway Dept. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUCCESS (scow schooner) Shipwreck | 0.9 miles | 2015 | |
 | OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck) | 3.1 miles | 2006 |
| Jacksonport Wharf Archaeological District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) | 3.9 miles | 2015 | |
| Jacksonport Wharf Archeological District | 4.1 miles | 2012 | |
 | LAKELAND (steam screw) Shipwreck | 7.8 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000466 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.