GRAPE SHOT (schooner) Shipwreck

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Door County · listed in 2016 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. .2 mi. NW. of USCCG Station on Plum Island, Washington
When was it listed? August 2016
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
Town. Washington town
National Register reference number. 16000564 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of GRAPE SHOT (schooner) Shipwreck between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
27 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	379
5 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	268
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	172
21 November 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

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 GRAPE SHOT (schooner) Shipwreck: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Hagen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Plum Island Range Rear Light	0.5 miles	1984
Plum island Life-Saving and Light Station	0.5 miles	2010
Pilot Island Light	2.6 miles	1983
Clearing, The	6.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000564 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.

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.