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Sanilac County, Michigan

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12historic places

—earliest paper

1822formed

40,611pop. 2020

76cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Lexington, Port Sanilac, Amador.

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

8 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cadillac House	Lexington	Building	2018
Divine, John, Law Office/Moore Public Library	Lexington	Building	1985
Fead, John L., House	Lexington	Building	1978
Loop, Joseph M., House	Port Sanilac	Building	1972
Matthews, Thomas and Margaret Spencer, Farm	Amador	District	1995
Moore, Charles H./Sleeper, Albert E., House	Lexington	Building	1985
Nims, William Reuben, House	Lexington	Building	1985
Port Sanilac Light Station	Port Sanilac	Building	1984
Port Sanilac Masonic and Town Hall	Port Sanilac	Building	1996
Roach, W.R., Cannery Warehouse and Office Building	Croswell	Building	2005
SPORT (tug) Shipwreck Site	Lexington	Site	1992
Sanilac Petroglyphs	Minden City	Site	1971

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sanilac was formed in 1822 (1822-09-10) from St.

SANILAC created by Michigan Territory from ST. CLAIR and from Non-County Area 2 attached to OAKLAND.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sanilac County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,112	7,599	26,341	35,055	31,237	30,114	30,837	32,314	40,789	44,547	40,611

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

76 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 76 of 76 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Argyle Cemetery	43.54214	-82.9342
Bardwell Cemetery	43.19527	-82.56944
Carmen Cemetery	43.22168	-82.54714
Castor Cemetery	43.24122	-82.52743
Christian Memorial Gardens East	43.24301	-82.81341
Croswell City Cemetery	43.26251	-82.62499
Delaware Cemetery	43.62243	-82.68295
Delaware Township Cemetery	43.65538	-82.61058
Diamond Cemetery (historical)	43.24722	-82.51278
Downing Cemetery	43.51586	-82.75734
East Marion Cemetery	43.54386	-82.64115
Elk Township Cemetery	43.24777	-82.80583
Evergreen Cemetery	43.54675	-83.05915
Farnsworth Grave	43.53332	-82.79444
Forester Township Cemetery	43.50397	-82.56882
Fremont Cemetery	43.22748	-82.74651
Germania Cemetery	43.40134	-83.02368
Greenwood Cemetery	43.39685	-82.82959
Hager Cemetery	43.2986	-83.06083
Hoppenworth Cemetery	43.35953	-82.53968
Hubbell Cemetery (historical)	43.40056	-82.6
Huckins Cemetery	43.26493	-82.58505
Hyslop Cemetery	43.39713	-82.9059
Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery	43.18704	-82.82658
Johnson Cemetery	43.48485	-82.99267
Juhl Cemetery	43.35601	-82.94516
Kelley Cemetery (historical)	43.6175	-82.60278
Kerr Cemetery	43.30954	-83.00314
Lakeview Cemetery	43.23904	-82.55811
Lee Cemetery	43.39166	-82.64905
Lexington Memorial Cemetery	43.26499	-82.53527
Lexington Village Cemetery	43.27179	-82.53623
Linwood Cemetery	43.66046	-82.65945
Locke Cemetery	43.16666	-82.59388
Long Cemetery	43.31124	-82.56674
Lutheran Cemetery	43.54332	-82.93333
Marlette Cemetery	43.31464	-83.08156
McLeish Cemetery	43.36833	-83.04612
Melvin Cemetery	43.1881	-82.86116
Mills Cemetery	43.57979	-82.67761
Minden City Cemetery	43.67118	-82.79747
Moore Township Cemetery	43.42317	-82.98679
Moshier Cemetery	43.46733	-83.09041
Mount Hope Cemetery	43.24829	-82.8173
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	43.62518	-82.93778
Mount Zion Cemetery	43.48599	-82.63896
Nicol Family Cemetery	43.6186	-83.01611
Old Ridge Cemetery	43.35	-82.58718
Old Saint Marys Cemetery	43.42865	-82.60266
Omard Cemetery	43.2561	-82.9198
Port Sanilac Cemetery	43.4349	-82.55384
Ridge Cemetery	43.37479	-82.58781
Rosbury Cemetery	43.50977	-82.71459
Rusnell Farm Cemetery	43.55694	-82.7375
Sacred Heart Cemetery	43.2228	-82.99855
Saint Denis Cemetery	43.28287	-82.53736
Saint Elizabeth Cemetery	43.31601	-83.08156
Saint John Cemetery	43.37722	-82.54899
Saint Johns Cemetery	43.6626	-82.62438
Saint Joseph and Saint Ignatius' Cemetery	43.61	-82.9175
Saint Joseph's Cemetery	43.39777	-82.82972
Saint Marys Cemetery	43.39513	-82.67581
Saint Patrick Mount Hope Cemetery	43.25608	-82.62523
Saint Patricks Cemetery	43.62862	-82.76743
Speaker Township Cemetery	43.2118	-82.80161
Steckley Cemetery	43.35251	-82.72117
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery	43.66038	-82.63853
Tucker Cemetery	43.46704	-82.72988
Valley Center Cemetery	43.17823	-82.91147
Washington Township Cemetery	43.39659	-82.67812
West Delaware Cemetery	43.64723	-82.71854
Wheatland Cemetery	43.57668	-82.87665
Wixson Cemetery	43.25167	-82.579
Worth Township Cemetery	43.20918	-82.61187
Wright Cemetery	43.55307	-82.7366
Zion Cemetery	43.34537	-82.82487

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Pine Hill	43.35836	-82.54048

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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