John and Katharine Tunkun Podjun Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The John and Katharine Tunkun Podjun Farm is a farm located at 9582 East 1 Mile Road in Luther, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article John and Katharine Tunkun Podjun Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Podjun, John and Katharine Tunkun, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 9581 E 1 mi. Rd., Ellsworth, 49656
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. district
Township. Ellsworth township
National Register reference number. 02000160 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of John and Katharine Tunkun Podjun Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 273 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LUTHER FD DISTRICT #1 0020083 - 2020
7 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEROY-ROSE LAKE FD 2019095 - 2019
6 July 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LUTHER FD DISTRICT #1 0000072 - 2019
18 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LUTHER FD DISTRICT #1 0000070 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lake 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000160 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 4 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.