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Photograph of Manitou Camp
Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Manitou Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Manitou Camp is a logging and fishing camp started in the 1890s on Manitou Island, part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Historically, Manitou Camp was used as a campground and as a facility for fishing.”

Wikipedia article Manitou Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Ashland County · listed in 1983 · 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 7 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Manitou Island, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, 54850
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 83003367 - 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Manitou Camp between 1998 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. 1 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/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreApostle Islands National LakeshoreVICKERY'S
1 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApostle Islands National LakeshoreFINE DAY

Every fire recorded in Ashland 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Apostle Islands Lighthouses1.5 miles1977
Rocky Island Historic District5.7 miles2008
Hadland Fishing Camp6.1 miles1977
Rocky Island Historic District6.3 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003367 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ashland CountyAll 32 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.