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Acres, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Acres, also known as Galesburg Country Homes, is a 71.25-acre (28.83 ha) residential development in Charleston Township, Michigan, United States. Developed starting in the late 1940s, it consists of 21 or 22 circular land lots, of which five contain houses.”
Wikipedia article The Acres, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 11036,11069,11090,11108 and 11185 Hawthorne Dr., Charleston Township, 49053
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. district
Township. Charleston township
Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 04000458 - 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Acres, The between 2018 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 2 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 use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	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
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001497 - 2019
27 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 262 - 2020
26 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 260 - 2020
12 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 237 - 2020
6 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0000840 - 2018
30 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 225 - 2020
2 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLIMAX TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2019
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GALESBURG-CHARLESTON FD 193 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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 Acres, The: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Balkema Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Cole Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo 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

2 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
	Climax Post Office Building	4.0 miles	1999
	Richard and Mary Woodward Gregory House	6.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000458 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalamazoo County	All 60 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.