Grove Hill New Mission Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Grove Hill New Mission Church is a historic church located at 5098 North West Bay Shore (M-22) in Omena, Michigan. It was constructed in 1858, designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Grove Hill New Mission Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. On MI 22, Omena, 49674
When was it listed? June 1972
Category. building
Township. Leelanau township
National Register reference number. 72000631 - 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Grove Hill New Mission Church between 1999 and 2020, burning about 14 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	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	LODGE
15 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	SUTTONS BY
14 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018205 - 2018
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	MCKEESE FIREWORKS
29 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	HOUSING
21 July 2013	Smoking	1.5 acres	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	STRONG HART
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	NINATGO
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020

Every fire 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

3 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
Omena Historic District	0.2 miles	2017
Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building	5.2 miles	2000
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	6.6 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000631 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.