BlockFrom the record
One of 38 National Register listings published here for Manitowoc County · listed in 2015 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
PATHFINDER (schooner) Shipwreck
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2.6 mi. N. of Rawley Point Lighthouse, Two Creeks, 54241
- When was it listed? October 2015
- Category. site
- Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
- National Register reference number. 15000712 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of PATHFINDER (schooner) Shipwreck in 1994, burning about 5 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Creeks, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Two Creeks | - | Rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches in a short time caused several road closures in northern Manitowoc County due to flash flooding. The river washed out Devils River Campground near Maribel, taking multiple campers downstream. The time of these reports is an estimate based on radar data. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Creeks | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and snapped power poles in Two Creeks. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Two Creeks | - | A thunderstorm dropped quarter size hail in Two Creeks. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | CONTINENTAL shipwreck (bulk carrier) | 0.8 miles | 2009 |
 | Rawley Point Light Station | 2.4 miles | 1984 |
| LOOKOUT (schooner) Shipwreck | 3.5 miles | 2017 | |
| ALASKA Shipwreck (Scow Schooner) | 3.6 miles | 2017 | |
| LASALLE Shipwreck (schooner) | 3.7 miles | 2017 | |
| MAJOR ANDERSON (barkentine) Shipwreck | 4.4 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000712 in Record Group 79. |
| Manitowoc 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.
- 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.