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Photograph of Riverside Inn
Photograph by Rochelle Briggeman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Riverside Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Riverside Inn is a restaurant and hotel located at 302 East River Street in Leland, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”

Wikipedia article Riverside Inn (Leland, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 302 E. River St., Leland, 49654
  • When was it listed? May 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Leland township
  • Architectural style. bungalow
  • National Register reference number. 03000386 - 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

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Inn between 2007 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020
18 May 2018Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 4521 - 2018
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 2400 - 2020
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018089 - 2018
22 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 December 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000020

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Riverside Inn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Leelanau County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLeland$5,200,000Trees and power lines were downed in northern Leelanau County, though the damage was not as extensive as further south. Still, multiple vehicles and homes were damaged by falling trees.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Leland$20,000A tornado touched down near the west shore of Lake Leelanau, then moved out onto the lake and quickly dissipated. Docks and boats were damaged along a short stretch of shoreline, and a few trees were downed in the area.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLeland$10,000Several trees were downed. Some power lines near the Leland Library were downed by falling trees.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLeland$6,000A number of trees and power lines were downed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLeland$4,000A few trees were downed.
July 2006HailLeland-Substantial damage done to fruit crops, including tart cherries, apples, and peaches.
June 2004HailLeland-Considerable damage was done to fruit trees and other crops in the Leland area. Damage estimate is conservative.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLeland-no account filed
April 2017HailLeland-no account filed
September 2008HailLeland-no account filed
May 2002HailLeland-no account filed
May 2001HailLeland-no account filed
May 2000HailLeland-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLeland-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLeland-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

5 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000386 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Leelanau CountyAll 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.
  • 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.