Kinross Township Hall and School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Kinross Township Hall and School is a government and educational building located at 7305 West Kinross Road in Kinross Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Kinross Township Hall and School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 2004 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 7305 W. Kinross Rd., Kinross Township, 49752
When was it listed? February 2004
Category. building
Charter township. Kinross charter township
National Register reference number. 03001549 - 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Kinross Township Hall and School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
27 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 August 1995	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIR
19 July 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIR
2 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOO TOWNSHIP FD 0024-19 - 2019
16 June 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DUKE LAKE -1

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 Kinross Township Hall and School: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	N. Pickford Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Petkus Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001549 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 26 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.