Manistee County Courthouse Fountain

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Manistee County Courthouse Fountain, also known as the Memorial Fountain, is a decorative fountain located in the Onekama Village Park in Onekama, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Manistee County Courthouse Fountain, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Manistee County · listed in 1988 · category: Object.

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 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Onekama Village Park, Onekama, 49675
When was it listed? February 1988
Category. object
Township. Onekama township
National Register reference number. 88000065 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Manistee County Courthouse Fountain between 2007 and 2020, burning about 11 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	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
24 May 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	POPLAR ROAD
22 May 2015	Other causes	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	FALK
18 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR LAKE FD 0018075 - 2018
14 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	COATS
14 May 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ASP
5 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR LAKE FD 0020046 - 2020
3 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	KERRY ROAD
3 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	MOONRIDGE

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2024	Hail	Onekama	$2,000,000	Images 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 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Onekama	$50,000	Reports of wind damage, including uprooted trees, during large hail event in Onekama.
April 2024	Hail	Onekama	$50,000	Hail report with photo from social media.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Onekama	$12,000	Several trees were downed. One tree in Onekama was left leaning on a home.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Onekama	$5,000	Social media pictures of multiple trees/large limbs downed.
April 2024	Hail	Onekama	-	Social media image of up to inch size hail on a deck.
August 1998	Hail	Onekama	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Camp Tosebo	2.1 miles	2000
Portage Point Inn Complex	2.6 miles	1985
Sandenburgh-Rogers Summer Resort Complex	2.7 miles	1996
Orchard Beach State Park	7.8 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000065 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manistee County	All 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.