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HANOVER (schooner) Shipwreck

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Hanover was a freight schooner that operated on the Great Lakes. The vessel's wreck is located off the coast of Fish Creek, Wisconsin.”

Wikipedia article Hanover (schooner), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2015 · 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. 1.75 mi. NW. of Fish Cr., Gibralter
  • When was it listed? October 2015
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
  • Town. Gibraltar town
  • National Register reference number. 15000710 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

4,644 words

This property stands in Gibraltar Town. History Of Door County Wisconsin The County Beautiful, published 1917 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Gibraltar Town - 4,644 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of HANOVER (schooner) Shipwreck between 2018 and 2020, burning about 4 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources324
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources81
13 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources42
22 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources51

Every fire recorded in Door County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of HANOVER (schooner) Shipwreck: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jarman QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Door 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Welcker's Resort Historic District1.6 miles1997
Church of the Atonement1.6 miles1985
Alexander Noble House1.7 miles1996
Vorous General Store1.8 miles1997
Freeman and Jesse Thorp House and Cottages1.9 miles1997
Eagle Bluff Lighthouse1.9 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000710 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Door CountyAll 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.