Frankfort Land Company House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Frankfort Land Company House, also known as the John Bockoven House, is a single family house located at 428 Leelanau Street in Frankfort, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Frankfort Land Company House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Benzie County · listed in 1995 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 428 Leelanau St., Frankfort, 49635
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. building
City. Frankfort city
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 95000452 - 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Frankfort Land Company House between 2001 and 2019, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
13 August 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000031 - 2018
27 May 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 April 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	7.6 acres	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BANCROFT
15 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000036 - 2019
25 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000026 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Benzie 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 Frankfort Land Company House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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
	Benzie County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Walter Rohn Property	Silica	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Benzie County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	$15,000	A 70 mph gust was measured at the Coast Guard Station on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Numerous trees and tree limbs were downed in Frankfort.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	$9,000	Several trees and a few power lines were downed.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	$8,000	Trees down on M-22 near Sutter Road, and on the Crystal Downs golf course.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	$6,000	Multiple trees and power lines were downed.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	$5,000	Local media reports multiple trees and powerlines down in the city of Frankfort. Reports confirmed by emergency manager.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	$1,000	Four funnel clouds were sighted by a Coast Guard Vessel, over water, along the shoreline between Frankfort and the Point Betsie Lighthouse. Trees and power lines were reported downed by the wind along two miles of M22 east of the Point Betsie Lighthouse.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	Multiple trees reported down in the vicinity of Frankfort, MI, including South Shore Rd.
September 2003	Hail	Frankfort	-	A strong upper level disturbance contributed to widespread thunderstorms. A large number of these produced small hail, though only one report of severe-criteria hail was received. Some waterspouts also occurred over nearby waters of the Great Lakes.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	Trees were downed along M-22.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	Several trees and power lines down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Frankfort	-	Numerous trees down.
April 1993	Hail	Frankfort	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benzie 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

6 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
CITY OF MILWAUKEE	0.3 miles	1990
Navigation Structures at Frankfort Harbor	0.6 miles	1997
Frankfort North Breakwater Light	0.7 miles	2005
Point Betsie Light Station	4.0 miles	1984
Gwen Frostic Studio	5.1 miles	2021
Watervale Historic District	5.7 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000452 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benzie County	All 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.