North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station, also known as North Manitou Coast Guard Station, is a complex of buildings located on North Manitou Island, which is part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, in the U.S. The complex was constructed as a life-saving station.”
Wikipedia article North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 1998 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 5 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. East Coast, North Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashor, 49630
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. district
Township. Leland township
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 98001191 - 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station in 2001, burning under an acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	FRANK

Every fire 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	North Manitou Shoal Light Station	7.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001191 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.