Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Harbor Springs Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Harbor Springs is a depot located at 111 West Bay Street in Harbor Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 as the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Harbor Springs Depot.”
Wikipedia article Harbor Springs station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Emmet 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.
Address. 111 W. Bay St., Harbor Springs, 49740
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
City. Harbor Springs city
National Register reference number. 00001487 - 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

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Harbor Springs Depot between 1996 and 2020, burning about 24 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
24 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR CREEK RESORT FD 0000239 - 2019
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	READMOND-FRIENDSHIP FD 0074371 - 2018
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PETOSKEY DPS-FIRE DIVISION 0000369 - 2020
26 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARBOR SPRINGS AREA FD 2018115 - 2018
17 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARBOR SPRINGS AREA FD 2018106 - 2018
7 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARBOR SPRINGS AREA FD 202055 - 2020
4 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EMMET 0003
19 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARBOR SPRINGS AREA FD 2018079 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Harbor Springs Depot: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Penn Dixie Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Petoskey Shale Mine & Mill	Clay	Past Producer
Kegomic Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Petoskey Crushed Stone Co.Ls.Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Backus Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Koboski Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kuchnicki Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Noggel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Emmet 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
Chief Andrew J. Blackbird House	0.3 miles	1972
Shay Complex	0.3 miles	1972
St. Francis Solanus Mission	3.8 miles	1972
J. M. Wells House	3.9 miles	1986
Frank Schapler House	3.9 miles	1986
Mineral Well Park	3.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001487 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet County	All 49 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.
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.