Traverse City, Michigan

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Grand Traverse County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 8 records

• American Legion Memorial Bridgelisted 2000
• Boardman Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1978
• Central Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1979
• City Opera Houselisted 1972
• Perry Hannah Houselisted 1972
• Hedden Halllisted 1982
• Northern Michigan Asylumlisted 1978
• South Union Street-Boardman River Bridgelisted 2000

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Traverse City SE quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Traverse City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brookside
• Chums Corners
• Grawn

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Traverse City: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traverse City in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1615042. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.