Saint Joseph's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Saint Joseph's Catholic Church is a church located at 5899 County Road 669 near Maple City, Michigan and east of Glen Arbor, Michigan. It was constructed in 1884 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Saint Joseph's Catholic Church (Glen Arbor, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5899 Co. Rd. 669, Cleveland Township, Glen Arbor, 49664
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. building
Township. Cleveland township
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 91001997 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph's Catholic Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 8664 - 2019
17 August 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	THORESON BEACH
12 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CEDAR FD 07860 - 2019
30 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	CLAYBANKS
7 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BASCH WIRE
24 June 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	SUNSET
16 June 2013	Natural	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	MILLER HILL
31 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BAKER

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 Saint Joseph's Catholic Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Kasson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Arbor, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 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
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Arbor	$4,000	Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Arbor	$2,000	Large tree limbs and power lines were downed by the wind at both locations.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Arbor	$1,000	County dispatch reported tree down blocking S. Glen Lake Rd. Time estimated via radar.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Arbor	-	Multiple trees and powerlines reported down in Glen Arbor.

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

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
Port Oneida Rural Historic District	4.3 miles	1997
Sleeping Bear Inn	7.1 miles	1979
Glen Haven Village Historic District	7.4 miles	1983
Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station	7.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001997 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.