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Photograph of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Complex
Photograph by kennethaw88, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic church, with an associated rectory, school, and cemetery, located at 324 S. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a Michigan State Historic Site in 2001.”

Wikipedia article St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Hubbardston, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Ionia County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 324 S. Washington Ave., Hubbardston, 48845
  • When was it listed? September 2001
  • Category. district
  • Township. North Plains township
  • National Register reference number. 01001019 - 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Complex between 2018 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 use3

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
15 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201843 - 2018
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARSON CITY FD 201916 - 2019
20 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBARDSTON FD 0000033 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Ionia County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Complex: 2 producers. All of them 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
Montcalm County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stockwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this property

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hubbardston, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$15,000Numerous trees were blown down one mile northwest of Hubbardston.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHubbardston$5,000Several trees were blown down in Hubbardston.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Muir Church of Christ8.0 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001019 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ionia CountyAll 16 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.