John J. and Eva Reynier Porter Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The John J. and Eva Reynier Porter Estate, also known as Elm Pointe, is a house, with associated outbuildings, located at 01787 M-66 South in South Arm Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article John J. and Eva Reynier Porter Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Charlevoix County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Porter, John J. and Eva Reynier, Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 01787 MI 66 S, South Arm Township, 49727
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. district
Township. South Arm township
National Register reference number. 98000269 - 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

17 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of John J. and Eva Reynier Porter Estate between 2003 and 2019, burning about 52 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
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 01 WILDERNESS
3 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX TOWNSHIP FD 0000158 - 2019
18 July 2006	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 June 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 02
25 May 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLEVOIX 05
8 April 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANTRIM 02

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of John J. and Eva Reynier Porter Estate: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ellsworth Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Norman Bartlett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix 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
Votruba Block	2.4 miles	2008
East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building	2.4 miles	2008
Boyne City Water Works Building	7.5 miles	1998
Wolverine Hotel	7.6 miles	1986
Loeb Farms Barn Complex	7.6 miles	1995
Boyne City Central Historic District	7.7 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000269 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlevoix County	All 17 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.