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Photograph of Boyne City Water Works Building
Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Boyne City Water Works Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Boyne City Water Works Building is a municipal industrial building located at 210 East Division Street in Boyne City, Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”

Wikipedia article Boyne City Water Works Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Charlevoix County · listed in 1998 · 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. 210 E. Division St., Boyne City, 49712
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. building
  • City. Boyne City city
  • National Register reference number. 98001060 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Boyne City Water Works Building between 1992 and 2018, burning about 33 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1808040 - 2018
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 01 WILDERNESS
13 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBOYNE CITY FD 0077446 - 2018
3 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 0002
18 June 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Boyne City Water Works Building: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boyne City Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyne City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBoyne City$2,000A few trees were downed.
August 2002Tornado (F1)Boyne City-Numerous trees down, some onto structures and vehicles. Roof damage to several buildings.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBoyne City-12 inch diameter trees down. Some garage roofs damaged.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBoyne City-Numerous three inch limbs down.
September 1996HailBoyne City-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Boyne City Central Historic District0.6 miles2012
Wolverine Hotel0.7 miles1986
Horton Bay House-Red Fox Inn6.4 miles1995
Horton Bay General Store6.4 miles1991
Votruba Block6.5 miles2008
East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building6.5 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001060 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlevoix CountyAll 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.
  • 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.