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Photograph of Old Cheboygan County Courthouse
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cheboygan County Courthouse

Built in 1869. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Old Cheboygan County Courthouse is a government building located at 229 Court Street in Cheboygan, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Old Cheboygan County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Cheboygan County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1869.

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. 229 Court St., Cheboygan, 49721
  • When was it listed? May 1986
  • Category. building
  • City. Cheboygan city
  • When was it built? 1869
  • National Register reference number. 86001010 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cheboygan County Courthouse between 1994 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
13 August 2006Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINVERNESS FD 0000045 - 2018
15 July 1995Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 June 1994Recreation and ceremony4.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2003Recreation and ceremony1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cheboygan County Courthouse: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cheboygan Tile&Brick Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Cheboygan County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheboygan, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCheboygan$100,000A portion of the roof of the Bishop Baraga School caved in. Little additional wind damage was noted in the immediate neighborhood. However, several trees were also uprooted a few miles to the southeast.
April 2011FloodCheboygan$25,000Inverness Trail was washed out near Maynard Road. Numerous other secondary and gravel roads were washed out and closed. Water levels reached the sides of a few homes.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCheboygan$12,000Two trees and numerous power lines were downed. A garage was damaged by a fallen tree.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-Ten inch diameter top of maple tree broken off.
August 2001Flash FloodCheboygan-Thunderstorms produced street flooding in the city of Cheboygan as they repeatedly developed and moved over the city.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-Trees and power lines down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-Trees and power lines down.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-Numerous trees of various sizes were downed.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-Spotter reported trees down in the town of Cheboygan.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-A large tree was blown down near Christopher's Restaurant on the southeast side of Mackinaw City.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCheboygan-Three trees, six to eight feet in diameter were blown over on the west side of Mackinaw City.
June 1994HailCheboygan-Dime-size hail was reported between Burt Lake and Mullet Lake by storm spotters.
June 2001HailCheboygan-no account filed
June 2001HailCheboygan-no account filed
July 1996HailCheboygan-no account filed
August 1996HailCheboygan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cheboygan 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
Newton-Allaire House0.5 miles1983
Cheboyan Bascule Bridge0.6 miles1999
Fourteen Foot Shoal Light Station3.6 miles2005
Poe Reef Light Station6.9 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001010 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cheboygan CountyAll 9 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.