Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building, also known as the Corner Store, is a commercial building located at 101 North Mill Street in Northport, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1880.

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.
Listed as. Morgan--Copp--Mervau Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 101 N. Mill St., Northport, 49670
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. building
Township. Leelanau township
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 00000219 - 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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building between 2009 and 2018, burning about 8 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/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018205 - 2018
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018096 - 2018
11 May 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU 01

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport-	$10,000	Trees and power lines were downed along the west shore of the county between Northport and Glen Haven.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	$6,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	$4,000	Multiple trees were downed at M-22 and Lee Mann Road.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	$2,000	One large tree was downed at Carlson Road and M-22.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	-	A single orchard had about a hundred cherry trees damaged or destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	-	Trees were downed.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Northport	-	Trees down.
May 2013	Hail	Northport	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Northport	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Northport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Omena Historic District	5.0 miles	2017
Grove Hill New Mission Church	5.2 miles	1972
Grand Traverse Light Station	6.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000219 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leelanau County	All 25 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.