Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot, also known as the Suttons Bay Railroad Depot, is a railroad station located at 101 South Cedar Street in Suttons Bay, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Suttons Bay station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1997 · 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. 101 S. Cedar St., Suttons Bay, 49682
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Township. Suttons Bay township
Architectural style. bungalow
National Register reference number. 97000929 - 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot between 1999 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 2 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	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	LODGE
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
15 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	SUTTONS BY
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	MCKEESE FIREWORKS
29 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	HOUSING
21 July 2013	Smoking	1.5 acres	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	STRONG HART
23 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians	NINATGO
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suttons Bay, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 8 hail, 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
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Suttons Bay-	$10,000	Trees and power lines were downed along a path from two miles south of Cedar, through Fouch and Bingham, to Suttons Bay.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Suttons Bay	$8,000	Several trees were downed. One large downed tree blocked M-22 north of Suttons Bay.
July 2016	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	Considerable damage done to fruit crops, especially cherries.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Suttons Bay	-	Trees down on roadways.
June 2011	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Suttons Bay	-	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

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
Fountain Point	2.8 miles	2003
Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge	3.0 miles	2000
William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm	5.7 miles	2005
Riverside Inn	6.2 miles	2003
Leland Historic District	6.4 miles	1975
Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation)	6.4 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000929 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.