Port Oneida Rural Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Port Oneida Rural Historic District is a historic district located along M-22 between Glen Arbor and Lake Leelanau in Leelanau County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.”
Wikipedia article Port Oneida Rural Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Lake Michigan, Shell Lake, Bass Lake, and Tucker Lake, Maple City, 49664
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. district
Township. Glen Arbor township
National Register reference number. 97000563 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Port Oneida Rural Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
17 August 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	THORESON BEACH
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
6 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	DUNE
31 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	BAKER
16 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	WHEELER

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple City, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 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
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple City	$13,000	Multiple trees downed, some onto power lines. One grass fire resulted.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple City	$6,000	Sporadic tree damage, including a few roads blocked by fallen trees.
August 2023	Hail	Maple City	-	Social media report with pic. Mainly nickel sized but some larger than a quarter.
April 2011	Hail	Maple City	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Maple City	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Maple City	-	no account filed

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
Saint Joseph's Catholic Church	4.3 miles	1992
Sleeping Bear Inn	5.0 miles	1979
Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station	5.2 miles	1979
North Manitou Shoal Light Station	5.5 miles	2005
Glen Haven Village Historic District	5.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000563 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.
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.