John Pulcipher House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The John Pulcipher House, also known as the Country Hermitage Bed & Breakfast, is a private house located at 7710 US 31 North, in Acme Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article John Pulcipher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Grand Traverse County · listed in 2000 · 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.
Listed as. Pulcipher, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7710 US 31 N, Acme Township, 49690
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
Township. Acme township
Architectural style. Stick style
National Register reference number. 00001484 - 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of John Pulcipher House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Agency	TURTLE CREEK 2
17 September 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 192682 - 2019
30 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Michigan Agency	TCC
29 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRAVERSE CITY FD 0001551 - 2018
27 June 2014	Debris and open burning	5.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 0001

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse 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

6 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
Boardman Neighborhood Historic District	6.3 miles	1978
Stickney Summer House-Bowers Harbor Inn	6.4 miles	2011
American Legion Memorial Bridge	6.7 miles	2000
City Opera House	6.7 miles	1972
South Union Street-Boardman River Bridge	6.8 miles	2000
Perry Hannah House	7.0 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001484 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand Traverse County	All 12 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.