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Photograph of Portage Point Inn Complex
Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Portage Point Inn Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Portage Point Inn Complex is a resort hotel located at the western end of Portage Lake at Portage Point, Michigan. In October 1985, this 1902 resort hotel and its associated buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Portage Point Inn Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Manistee County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 8513 S. Portage Point Dr., Onekama, 49675
  • When was it listed? October 1985
  • Category. building
  • Township. Onekama township
  • National Register reference number. 85003001 - 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 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Portage Point Inn Complex between 2010 and 2019, burning about 11 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 May 2012Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOLD NEST
22 May 2015Other causesunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFALK
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE FD 0018075 - 2018
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCOATS
14 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestASP
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMOONRIDGE
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestJOSEPH
14 April 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresHuron-Manistee National Forest31

Every fire recorded in Manistee County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onekama, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024HailOnekama$2,000,000Images shared on social media from Zosel St. in Onekama of measured 2 inch hail. Damage to vehicles and home siding. Time estimated from radar.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindOnekama$50,000Reports of wind damage, including uprooted trees, during large hail event in Onekama.
April 2024HailOnekama$50,000Hail report with photo from social media.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindOnekama$12,000Several trees were downed. One tree in Onekama was left leaning on a home.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOnekama$5,000Social media pictures of multiple trees/large limbs downed.
April 2024HailOnekama-Social media image of up to inch size hail on a deck.
August 1998HailOnekama-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Manistee 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

4 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
Sandenburgh-Rogers Summer Resort Complex0.7 miles1996
Camp Tosebo1.4 miles2000
Manistee County Courthouse Fountain2.6 miles1988
Orchard Beach State Park6.6 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85003001 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manistee CountyAll 19 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.