Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge is a bridge located on M-204 over Lake Leelanau Narrows in Leland Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Leelanau County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. M-204 over Lake Leelanau Narrows, Leland Township, 49653
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Leland township
Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 99001732 - 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge between 2006 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 1 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	MCKEESE FIREWORKS
29 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Agency	HOUSING
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020
20 May 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000008
18 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 4521 - 2018
4 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore	OVERBY
3 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LELAND TOWNSHIP FIRE AND RESCUE 2400 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Leelanau 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 Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Leelanau County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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	1.0 miles	2003
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	3.0 miles	1997
Riverside Inn	3.6 miles	2003
Leland Historic District	3.8 miles	1975
Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation)	3.8 miles	2022
William and Margaret McFarland Core Farm	6.2 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001732 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.
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.