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Photograph of Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station, also known as the Glen Haven Coast Guard Station, is a Coast Guard station located near Glen Haven, Michigan. It is significant as a nearly intact version of what was, when built, a prototype architectural design.”

Wikipedia article Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1979 · 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 4 buildingss, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N of Glen Haven, Glen Haven, 49636
  • When was it listed? April 1979
  • Category. building
  • Township. Glen Arbor township
  • National Register reference number. 79000285 - 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station between 1993 and 2013, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
22 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreCHIEF
17 August 2008Fireworksunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreTHORESON BEACH
5 July 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreDAYFOREST
1 July 1993Fireworksunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreFIREWORKS
24 June 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreSUNSET
16 June 2013Naturalunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreMILLER HILL
6 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreDUNE
27 May 2012Naturalunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreGREENAN FIRE

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Haven, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGlen Haven$18,800,000An NWS storm survey team estimated winds in excess of 80 mph crossing much of southern Leelanau County. Thousands of trees were downed in this swath, from the Sleeping Bear Dunes to Grand Traverse Bay. Many homes and vehicles were damaged by falling trees. Area roads were closed for days, in some cases weeks. Glen Arbor was inaccessible via road for two days, until M-22 could be cleared of trees and reopened. The county established drop points for residents to leave storm debris; these remained open for seven weeks after the storm. Across Leelanau County, two homes were destroyed, and over 700 were damaged in some way.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGlen Haven$8,000Multiple trees were downed in Glen Haven.
August 2004HailGlen Haven-no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sleeping Bear Inn0.4 miles1979
Glen Haven Village Historic District1.0 miles1983
Port Oneida Rural Historic District5.2 miles1997
Empire School6.9 miles2008
Saint Joseph's Catholic Church7.4 miles1992
South Manitou Island Lighthouse Complex and Life Saving Station Historical District7.6 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000285 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.
  • 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.