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Photograph of Benzie County Courthouse
Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Benzie County Courthouse

Built in 1912 (Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Benzie County Courthouse is a historic former courthouse in Beulah, Michigan. It is a Michigan State Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Benzie County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Benzie County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1912, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

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. 7157 Crystal Ave., Beulah, 49617
  • When was it listed? June 1996
  • Category. building
  • Township. Benzonia township
  • When was it built? 1912
  • Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96000611 - 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Benzie County Courthouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZONIA TOWNSHIP FD 19034 - 2019
13 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMESTEAD TOWNSHIP FD 0003636 - 2018
18 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZIE 02

Every fire recorded in Benzie County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBeulah$9,000Scattered trees were downed from the Beulah area to near Cinder and Homestead Roads.
September 2021HailBeulah-Report from mping.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mills Community House0.6 miles1972
Gwen Frostic Studio2.1 miles2021
CITY OF MILWAUKEE6.9 miles1990
Frankfort Land Company House7.0 miles1995
Navigation Structures at Frankfort Harbor7.5 miles1997
Frankfort North Breakwater Light7.7 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000611 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benzie 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.
  • 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.