IVES LAKE
Marquette County
October 13, 1922: "A fire tower has been erected near Ives Lake, Marquette county and a telephone is being installed by the state to connect with Big Bay. At this observation tower a watchman will be stationed during the season of fires, his observation covering a vast acreage.
Sherman Tissue of Skanee and Nelson Crebassa of L'Anse were at Ives Lake this helping to install the telephone line." (The L'Anse Sentinel)
Sherman Tissue of Skanee and Nelson Crebassa of L'Anse were at Ives Lake this helping to install the telephone line." (The L'Anse Sentinel)
October 20, 1922: "Messrs. Sherman Tissue and Nelson J. Crebassa returned last Friday from Ives Lake, Marquette county, where they ran a telephone line to the fire tower." (The L'Anse Sentinel)
National Geodetic Survey
DESIGNATION - IVES
PID - RK0597
STATE/COUNTY- MI/MARQUETTE
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - IVES HILL (2017)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1955 (NET)
THE STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF BIG BAY, 1
MILE SOUTHEAST OF IVES LAKE ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF A WOODED HILL AT
THE LOCATION OF AN ABANDONED LOOKOUT TOWER AND U.S. LAKE SURVEY TRIANGULATION STATION IVES HILL 1872. IT IS IN SECTION 10,T.51N., R.28W.
TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE JUNCTION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY HIGHWAYS
510 AND 550, WHICH IS ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAY POINT, GO
SOUTHWEST ON HIGHWAY 510 FOR 2.7 MILES TO A ROAD RIGHT. TURN
RIGHT, GO WESTERLY 4.2 MILES TO WHERE GRAVEL ROAD TURNS LEFT AND A
TRACK CONTINUES STRAIGHT AHEAD. CONTINUE STRAIGHT AHEAD ON
TRACK ROAD THROUGH WOODS 0.6 MILE TO THE END OF TRUCK TRAVEL AT
A CABIN ON THE SOUTH BANK OF A CREEK. FROM CABIN FOLLOW TRAIL
WEST ABOUT 300 YARDS TO A FOOT BRIDGE OVER CREEK. CROSS CREEK AND
FOLLOW TRAIL NORTHWESTERLY ABOUT 150 YARDS. LEAVE TRAIL
AND FOLLOW TREE BLAZES NORTHERLY APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE TO TOP OF
HILL AND STATION.
THE STATION MARK, A STANDARD DISK STAMPED IVES 1955 IS CEMENTED IN A
DRILL HOLE IN OUTCROPPING BEDROCK 20 FEET EAST AND ABOUT 1 FOOT
LOWER THAN THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE OUTCROPPING BEDROCK, 11.6 FEET
SOUTHEAST OF THE SOUTHWEST ANCHOR LEG OF THE ABANDONED LOOKOUT TOWER AND 11.5 FEET SOUTHWEST OF THE SOUTHEAST ANCHOR LEG.