Boyne City Central Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Boyne City Central Historic District is a commercial historic district located along the 100 and 200 blocks of Water and Lake Streets and adjacent parts of Main Street and South Park in Boyne City, Michigan. The district also contains the residential structures in the local Pearl Street Historic District to the east of the downtown area.”
Wikipedia article Boyne City Central Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Charlevoix County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Water, Pearl, Lake, Ray & Main Sts., Boyne City, 49712
When was it listed? December 2012
Category. district
City. Boyne City city
National Register reference number. 12001071 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Boyne City Central Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 33 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1808040 - 2018
30 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 01 WILDERNESS
13 August 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BOYNE CITY FD 0077446 - 2018
3 June 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 0002
18 June 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix 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 Boyne City Central Historic District: 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
	Boyne City Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyne City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Boyne City	$2,000	A few trees were downed.
August 2002	Tornado (F1)	Boyne City	-	Numerous trees down, some onto structures and vehicles. Roof damage to several buildings.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Boyne City	-	12 inch diameter trees down. Some garage roofs damaged.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Boyne City	-	Numerous three inch limbs down.
September 1996	Hail	Boyne City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix 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
Wolverine Hotel	0.3 miles	1986
Boyne City Water Works Building	0.6 miles	1998
Horton Bay House-Red Fox Inn	6.0 miles	1995
Horton Bay General Store	6.0 miles	1991
Horton Bary School	6.2 miles	2001
Votruba Block	6.9 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001071 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlevoix County	All 17 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.