Fort Michilimackinac

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States. Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the straits that connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan of the Great Lakes of North America.”
Wikipedia article Fort Michilimackinac, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Emmet County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Near Mackinac Bridge at the terminus of U.S. 31, Mackinaw City, 49701
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Township. Wawatam township
National Register reference number. 66000395 - 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

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fort Michilimackinac between 2003 and 2019, burning about 6 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/undetermined	4

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
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST IGNACE VFD 2019077 - 2019
10 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Emmet 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000395 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet County	All 49 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.