Fountain Point

Fountain Point is a geographic landmark located on the eastern shore of South Lake Leelanau in Suttons Bay Township, Michigan. Its name is derived from a fountain of sparkling artesian spring water, situated on a large point on Lake Leelanau, which has been continuously gushing since 1867.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lake Leelanau and Suttons Bay.

Lake Leelanau

Village

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Lake Leelanau is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Leelanau County, Michigan, near the lake of the same name. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 229.

Suttons Bay

Village

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Suttons Bay is a village in Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population in the village reached 613 at the 2020 census. Located within Suttons Bay Township, the community lies upon the shore of the eponymous Suttons Bay, a smaller inlet of Grand Traverse Bay, a bay of Lake Michigan. Suttons Bay is situated 2½ miles east of Fountain Point.

Leland

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Leland is a village in Leelanau County, Michigan (also known as the Leelanau Peninsula on the shore of Lake Michigan. Leland is the site of the oldest and largest Ottawa village on the Leelanau Peninsula named Mishi-me-go-bing, "the place where canoes run up into the river to land, because they have no harbor".

Fountain Point

Type: Hamlet
Description: geographic landmark in Suttons Bay Township, Michigan
Categories: geographic location and locality
Location: Township of Suttons Bay, Leelanau County, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.96944° or 44° 58′ 10″ north

Longitude

-85.70536° or 85° 42′ 19″ west

Elevation

614 feet (187 metres)

Open location code

86PPX79V+QV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 153487201

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4993222

Wikidata ID

Q106230510

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