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Photograph of Campbell-DeYoung Farm
Photograph by Rochelle Briggeman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Campbell-DeYoung Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Campbell-DeYoung Farm is a farmstead located at 9510 East Cherry Bend Road in Elmwood Charter Township, Michigan. It is currently operated as a recreational area by the Leelanau Conservancy, and known as the DeYoung Natural Area.”

Wikipedia article Campbell-DeYoung Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Campbell--DeYoung Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 9510 E. Cherry Bend Rd. (Elmwood Charter Township), Cherry Bend, 49684
  • When was it listed? September 2011
  • Category. district
  • Charter township. Elmwood charter township
  • National Register reference number. 11000634 - 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Campbell-DeYoung Farm between 1994 and 2020, burning about 67 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193174 - 2019
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRAVERSE CITY FD 0002106 - 2018
11 August 1996Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources1800225 - 2018
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRAVERSE CITY FD 0001820 - 2019
30 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000162 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Campbell-DeYoung Farm: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Markham's Clay PitClayPast Producer
Traverse City PlantIronProducer
Grand Traverse Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Harris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haywood Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Niedzielski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
The Concrete Service MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse4.7 miles1991
William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm6.0 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000634 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.