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Photograph of Roosevelt American Legion Hospital
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Roosevelt Community House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Roosevelt American Legion Hospital, also known as the 'Roosevelt Community House, the Legion Villa, or The Rotunda, was a health care facility located at 107 Evergreen Road in Springfield, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”

Wikipedia article Roosevelt American Legion Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Calhoun 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

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 107 Evergreen Rd., Springfield, 49037
  • When was it listed? August 2001
  • Category. building
  • Charter township. Bedford charter township
  • National Register reference number. 01000653 - 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

60 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt Community House between 2004 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 were 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 use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05331 - 2018
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 00250 - 2019
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05036 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03805 - 2018
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENNFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 00600 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 04481 - 2019
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03882 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Roosevelt Community House: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Calhoun County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dickman Road Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickman Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoffman Brothers Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rays Aggregates CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$150,000A peak wind gust to 58 mph was measured at Battle Creek airport and numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$50,000A 66 mph peak wind gust was reported at the Battle Creek airport ASOS and there were several reports of downed trees and power lines.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$25,000Numerous trees were blown down one mile west of Bedford, or about three miles north of Springfield.
September 2006HailSpringfield$15,000A trained spotter reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Springfield.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$10,000Several trees were blown down three miles north of Springfield.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$5,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-A 64 mph peak wind gust was measured at the Battle Creek airport ASOS.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-A 60 mph peak wind gust was measured at the Battle Creek airport ASOS.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-A thunderstorm which became severe produced a 53 knot measured wind gust at the Battle Creek airport. Several trees and power lines were blown down in the vicinity of Battle Creek, Tekonsha, Marshall and Albion.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Camp Custer Veterans Administration Hospital-United States Veterans Hospital No. 1001.6 miles2012
Advent Historic District3.4 miles1994
Milk Producers Company Barn3.6 miles2002
Battle Creek Sanitarium (Boundary Increase)3.8 miles2012
W.K. Kellogg House3.8 miles1985
Federal Center3.8 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000653 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun CountyAll 50 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.
  • 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.