Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse is a school building located at 7171 South Center Highway in Bingham Township, Leelanau County, Michigan. It is now used as the Bingham Township Hall.”
Wikipedia article Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1991 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Co. Rds. 618 and 633, Bingham Township, Bingham, 49684
When was it listed? July 1991
Category. building
Township. Bingham township
National Register reference number. 91000353 - 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse between 1994 and 2019, burning about 59 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
20 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 2004	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU 01
12 April 2015	Debris and open burning	44 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU 01 - WALTERS RD
31 December 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CEDAR FD 13649 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Markham's Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bingham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Hail	Bingham	-	Employees at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station in the Leelanau Peninsula, northwest of Traverse City, MI, reported hail up to the size of golf balls, leading to damage of some cherry and apple orchards in the area, impacting sale of some fresh market apples as processing apples instead.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bingham	-	Mesonet station minwm 0.8 NE Bingham.

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

5 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
William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm	1.4 miles	2005
Campbell-DeYoung Farm	4.7 miles	2011
Fountain Point	6.5 miles	2003
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	6.9 miles	1997
Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge	7.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000353 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.
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.