Built in 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
“The Success is a shipwreck located off the coast of Whitefish Dunes State Park in Sevastopol, Wisconsin.”
Wikipedia article Success (shipwreck), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2015 · category: Site · built in 1875.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Sevastopol Town. History of Door County, Wisconsin, Together with Biographies of Nearly Seven Hundred Families, and Mention of 4,000 Persons .., published 1881; 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 Sevastopol Town - 3,874 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of SUCCESS (scow schooner) 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 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of SUCCESS (scow schooner) 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 |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck | 0.9 miles | 2013 | |
 | OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck) | 3.3 miles | 2006 |
| Jacksonport Wharf Archaeological District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation) | 4.5 miles | 2015 | |
| Jacksonport Wharf Archeological District | 4.7 miles | 2012 | |
 | LAKELAND (steam screw) Shipwreck | 7.1 miles | 2015 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000711 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Door County | All 68 listed properties in this county. |
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