Fayette

Built in 1959. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fayette Historic State Park is a historic preservation and public recreation area encompassing the historic town of Fayette in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located on the Big Bay de Noc of Lake Michigan, between Snail Shell Harbor and Sand Bay, on the southern side of the Upper Peninsula, about 17 miles south of US 2.”
Wikipedia article Fayette Historic State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Delta County · listed in 1970 · category: District · built in 1959.

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

The listing

Address. On a peninsula in Big Bay de Noc, on MI 149 in Fayette State Park, Fayette, 49835
When was it listed? February 1970
Category. district
Township. Fairbanks township
When was it built? 1959
National Register reference number. 70000269 - 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fayette between 2002 and 2019, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	3
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201917 - 2019
21 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAYETTE FIRE
20 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201906 - 2019
17 March 2010	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAC BAY

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayette, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayette	$500	Large tree limbs were reported down in and around the campground at Fayette Historic State Park.
August 2015	Hail	Fayette	-	Golf ball sized hail reported in Fayette.
July 1997	Hail	Fayette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fayette (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000269 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delta County	All 15 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.
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.