Scottville School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Scottville School, also known as the Old School House, was a school located at 209 North Main Street in Scottville, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and was demolished in 2026.”
Wikipedia article Scottville School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 209 N. Main St., Scottville, 49454
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. building
City. Scottville city
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 01000571 - 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Scottville School between 1996 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	SUNDAY
3 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WHELAN WALKER
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SCOTTVILLE FD 20-0199 - 2020
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	CUSTER
18 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SCOTTVILLE FD 19-0191 - 2019
8 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SCOTTVILLE FD 20-0144 - 2020
28 May 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DALTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000364 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$25,000	Law enforcement reported that trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$25,000	Several trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in Scottville.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$25,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$20,000	Many trees and power lines were blown down in Scottville.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$20,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$20,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Scottville	$20,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	$10,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm during the late evening hours blew down several trees and power lines in Scottville and Ludington (Mason county).
May 2001	Hail	Scottville	$10,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm produced nickel-sized diameter hail 3 miles south of Scottville.
March 2000	Hail	Scottville	$10,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	-	A trained weather spotter in Scottville reported a 70 mph wind gust as measured by his local anemometer. Trees and power lines were downed by severe thunderstorm winds in and around the city.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	-	Official NWS Cooperative Observer measured a 66-mph wind gust in Scottville.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees two miles north of Scottville.
February 1997	Flash Flood	Scottville	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
	East Ludington Avenue Historic District	7.9 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000571 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mason County	All 10 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.