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Photograph of SS S.C. Baldwin
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S.C. BALDWIN Shipwreck (barge)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Baldwin was a wooden-hulled steam barge built in 1871, that capsized in a storm on August 26, 1908, on Lake Michigan, off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States, with the loss of one life. Baldwin were listed in the National Register of Historic Places as reference number 16000565.”

Wikipedia article SS S. C. Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Manitowoc County · listed in 2016 · 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. 2.3 mi. SSE. of Rawley Point Lighthouse in L. Michigan, Two Rivers
  • When was it listed? August 2016
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
  • National Register reference number. 16000565 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of S.C. BALDWIN Shipwreck (barge) between 1994 and 2018, 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/undetermined2

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
10 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources180124

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this property

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Rivers, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodTwo Rivers$170,000Runoff from rainfall and snow melt combined with ice jams to cause flooding on rivers, streams and roads in the vicinity of Manitowoc and Two Rivers. Some residents living near the West Twin River had to be evacuated while county emergency crews worked to contain the overflowing Shoto Dam. The runoff also caused flooding of other low-lying and poor drainage areas. Two homes sustained major flood damage, and four homes and one business sustained minor damage. Some roads were also damaged by the flooding and required repairs after the water receded. The Manitowoc River reached major flood stage just west of Manitowoc, reaching a (preliminary) record stage of 13.58 feet. A county-wide state of emergency was declared on March 15th.
July 2021Flash FloodTwo Rivers$28,000Several rounds of thunderstorms dumped rainfall amounts of 3 to 5 inches during the afternoon and evening hours of July 14. Numerous reports of flooded and impassable roads were reported in Manitowoc and surrounding areas.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers$4,500Thunderstorms produced a wind gust estimated at 65 mph that downed trees, one of which fell on a car, as they moved through Two Rivers. The storms also produced dime size hail as they passed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-Winds from a decaying line of showers caused wind damage in Two Rivers. The winds uprooted some trees, pushed over a fence, and snapped a few power poles.
June 2022HailTwo Rivers-Half dollar size hail fell in Two Rivers.
June 2022HailTwo Rivers-Ping pong size hail fell near Two Rivers.
June 2021HailTwo Rivers-Penny size hail fell in Two Rivers.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Two Rivers. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Two Rivers, knocking out power to the west side of town.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-The public reported that many trees and powerlines were knocked down on the north side of Two Rivers.
July 2012HailTwo Rivers-Quarter size hail fell at Two Rivers.
July 2012HailTwo Rivers-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail and strong winds at Two Rivers. The winds downed a flag pole and threw chairs across a yard.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-no account filed
June 2002LightningTwo Rivers-no account filed
August 2001HailTwo Rivers-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindTwo Rivers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
LASALLE Shipwreck (schooner)1.4 miles2017
MAJOR ANDERSON (barkentine) Shipwreck1.5 miles2014
ALASKA Shipwreck (Scow Schooner)1.5 miles2017
LOOKOUT (schooner) Shipwreck1.5 miles2017
TUBAL CAIN (barque) Shipwreck1.9 miles2017
Rawley Point Light Station2.3 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000565 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manitowoc CountyAll 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.