Fountain Point

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Fountain Point Resort is a historic landmark located on the eastern shore of South Lake Leelanau in Suttons Bay Township, Michigan. Its name is derived from a fountain of sparkling artesian spring water, situated on a large point on Lake Leelanau, which has been continuously gushing since 1867.”
Wikipedia article Fountain Point Resort, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. 990 South Lake Leelanau Dr., Suttoms Bay Township, 49653
When was it listed? July 2003
Category. district
Township. Suttons Bay township
National Register reference number. 03000623 - 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

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Point between 1995 and 2020, burning about 59 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	OAK FIRE
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
9 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	GOODHARBOR
20 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 May 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000008
11 May 2004	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	OVERBY
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CEDAR FD 3872 - 2018

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 Fountain Point: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Leelanau County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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

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
Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge	1.0 miles	2000
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	2.8 miles	1997
Riverside Inn	4.6 miles	2003
Leland Historic District	4.7 miles	1975
Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation)	4.7 miles	2022
William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm	5.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000623 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.
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.