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Photograph of Old Iron County Courthouse
Photograph by Bobak Ha'Eri, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Iron County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Old Iron County Courthouse, now the Iron County Historical Museum, at 303 Iron St. in Hurley in Iron County, Wisconsin, was built in 1892-1893. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”

Wikipedia article Old Iron County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 303 Iron St., Hurley, 54534
  • When was it listed? July 1977
  • Category. building
  • City. Hurley city
  • National Register reference number. 77000031 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Old Iron County Courthouse between 1993 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Old Iron County Courthouse: 24 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Nickel. 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
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Pence MineIron, NickelPast Producer1888, 1912
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Katie Saari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Montreal Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurley, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 2000LightningHurley2 hurtA couple were struck by lightning while camping on an island in the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, causing injuries severe enough for hospitalization.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHurley-A few trees were knocked down into business parking lots along 10th Avenue North.
August 2016HailHurley-The hailstones ranged from the size of peas to just less than the size of quarters. The hail fell for approximately 10 minutes.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHurley-Sporadic wind damage was reported, especially along the Rt 2 corridor.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHurley-Numerous trees were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHurley-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHurley-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHurley-no account filed
July 1997HailHurley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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

3 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
Annala Round Barn2.3 miles1979
Montreal Company Location Historic District2.7 miles1980
Plummer Mine Headframe5.9 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iron CountyAll 5 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.
  • 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.