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Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

“The Leland Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by the park, Main Street, Avenue A, and the harbor, in Leland, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Leland Historic District (Leland, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. West River St., West Cedar St., West Avenue A, Leland Township, 49654
When was it listed? January 2022
Category. district
Township. Leland township
National Register reference number. 100006765 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation) between 2007 and 2020, burning about 11 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 use	3
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020
18 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 4521 - 2018
3 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 2400 - 2020
22 April 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 December 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS 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 Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation): 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

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
Leland Historic District	under 500 feet	1975
Riverside Inn	0.2 miles	2003
Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge	3.8 miles	2000
Fountain Point	4.7 miles	2003
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	6.4 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006765 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.