William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm, now operated as the Ruby Ellen Farm, is a farmstead located at 5946 South Center Highway and 5856 South Lake Leelanau Drive in Bingham Township, Leelanau County, Michigan. The farm was operated by William Core and his descendants for nearly 150 years, from 1865 until 2011.”
Wikipedia article William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Core, William and Margaret McFarland, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5946 S. Center Hwy;5856 S. Lake Leelanau Dr., Bingham Township, 49684
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. district
Township. Bingham township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04001579 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm between 1994 and 2019, burning about 108 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5

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
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
20 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 2004	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CEDAR FD 3872 - 2018
16 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU 01
12 April 2015	Debris and open burning	44 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU 01 - WALTERS RD

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 William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Markham's Clay Pit	Clay	Past 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse	1.4 miles	1991
Fountain Point	5.1 miles	2003
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	5.7 miles	1997
Campbell-DeYoung Farm	6.0 miles	2011
Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge	6.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001579 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.