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Leelanau County, Michigan

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25historic places

—earliest paper

1840formed

22,301pop. 2020

58cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 25 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Glen Haven, Leland Township, Leland.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

10 of 25 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

25 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bingham District No. 5 Schoolhouse	Bingham	Building	1991
Campbell-DeYoung Farm	Cherry Bend	District	2011
Core, William and Margaret McFarland, Farm	Bingham Township	District	2005
Empire School	Empire	Building	2008
Fishtown Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Leland Township	District	2022
Fountain Point	Suttoms Bay Township	District	2003
Glen Haven Village Historic District	Glen Haven	District	1983
Grand Traverse Light Station	Northport	Building	1984
Grove Hill New Mission Church	Omena	Building	1972
Hutzler's Barn	Leland	Building	1978
Hutzler, George Conrad, Farm	Glen Haven	District	1991
Lake Leelanau Narrows Bridge	Leland Township	Structure	2000
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depot	Suttons Bay	Building	1997
Leland Historic District	Leland	District	1975
Morgan-Copp-Mervau Building	Northport	Building	2000
North Manitou Island Lifesaving Station NHL	Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashor	District	1998
North Manitou Shoal Light Station	Leland Township	Structure	2005
Omena Historic District	Omena	District	2017
Port Oneida Rural Historic District	Maple City	District	1997
Riverside Inn	Leland	Building	2003
Saint Joseph's Catholic Church	Glen Arbor	Building	1992
Sleeping Bear Inn	Glen Haven	Building	1979
Sleeping Bear Point Life Saving Station	Glen Haven	Building	1979
South Fox Island Light Station	Leelanau Township	District	2021
South Manitou Island Lighthouse Complex and Life Saving Station Historical District	South Manitou Island	District	1983

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Leelanau was formed in 1840 (1840-04-01) from Michilimackinac.

LEELANAU created from MICHILIMACKINAC (now MACKINAC).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Leelanau County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,158	6,253	10,556	9,061	8,436	8,647	9,321	14,007	21,119	22,301

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
SLBE	Park unit	30.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

58 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 58 of 58 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Atwill Memorial Chapel Cemetery	45.13841	-85.56302
Beck Graves	None	None
Beechwood Cemetery	45.03971	-85.73925
Bingham Cemetery	44.86666	-85.6748
Burdickville Cemetery	44.85021	-85.94477
Cleveland Cemetery	44.9186	-85.86953
East Kasson Cemetery	44.80416	-85.85341
East Leland Cemetery	45.01749	-85.71647
Fairview Cemetery	None	None
Fouch Cemetery	44.8336	-85.70952
Glen Arbor Cemetery	44.89138	-85.99286
Grindstuen Cemetery	44.91777	-85.79369
Haas Graves	None	None
Heimforth Cemetery	44.8486	-85.69008
Hutzler Grave	None	None
Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery	45.02194	-85.60388
Kasson Cemetery	44.86277	-85.84814
Kelderhouse Port Oneida Cemetery	44.93832	-85.93647
Kilwy Cemetery	44.9336	-85.79619
Leelanau School Road Cemetery	44.91055	-85.97111
Leelanau Township Number One and Two Cemetery	45.13805	-85.62083
Leland Catholic Cemetery	45.02638	-85.75611
Maple Grove Cemetery	44.83744	-86.03443
Maple Grove Cemetery	44.93944	-85.65313
Miller Cemetery	44.94166	-85.94166
Mongoo Cemetery	45.12527	-86.00055
Mount Calvary Cemetery	44.87999	-85.77702
Nash - Pettengill Cemetery	44.84471	-85.85555
North Manitou Island Cemetery	45.07805	-85.98638
Northport Point Columbarium Cemetery	45.13944	-85.56361
Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery	44.97082	-85.66841
Old Indian Cemetery	45.15471	-85.64388
Omena Cemetery	45.05832	-85.59166
Omena Presbyterian Cemetery	45.05749	-85.58666
Onominese Indian Cemetery	45.12218	-85.66639
Onomonese Indian Cemetery	45.12221	-85.66638
Price Graves	None	None
Rose Hill Cemetery	44.80721	-85.9173
Round Top Cemetery	44.83388	-85.84564
Sailors Graves	45.02388	-86.10249
Saint Joseph Cemetery	44.89832	-85.88175
Saint Marys Cemetery	44.97638	-85.70397
Saint Michael Cemetery	44.97388	-85.65833
Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery	44.93777	-85.80999
Saint Philip Neri Catholic Church Cemetery	44.81528	-86.05705
Saint Rita Cemetery	44.84805	-85.85591
Saint Wenceslaus Cemetery	45.05527	-85.67805
Shoemaker Grave	None	None
Solon Cemetery	44.81027	-85.78619
South Fox Island Cemetery	None	None
South Manitou Island Cemetery	45.03054	-86.11398
Sutton Bay Township Cemetery	44.97339	-85.65825
Sutton Township Cemetery	44.92343	-85.65818
Swedish Mission Cemetery	44.94582	-85.7998
Tobin Cemetery	44.85498	-85.99846
Tucker Lake Cemetery	44.90138	-85.95499
Werner - Erickson Cemetery	44.94166	-85.94861
Wilson Cemetery	44.78221	-85.89647

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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