South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10408 M-140, Berrien, 49102
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. district
Township. Berrien township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001506 - 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
26 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 97 - 2019
28 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 78 - 2020
23 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 76 - 2020
27 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2019238 - 2019
8 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 46 - 2020
7 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 21 - 2020
26 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 49 - 2018
19 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 26 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cass Co Pit Yerington Const	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kiell Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Three S Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Yerington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Old Berrien County Courthoue Complex	3.8 miles	1982
Berrien Springs Courthouse	4.0 miles	1970
Niles Railroad Depot	6.5 miles	1979
Ferry Street Historic District	6.9 miles	2025
Old US Post Office	6.9 miles	1985
Niles Downtown Historic District	6.9 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001506 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berrien County	All 32 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.