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Photograph of Oshtemo Town Hall
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oshtemo Town Hall

Built in 1877 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Oshtemo Town Hall is a governmental building located at 10 South Eighth Street in Oshtemo Charter Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”

Wikipedia article Oshtemo Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1877, Victorian architecture.

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. 10 S. Eighth St., Oshtemo Charter Township, 49009
  • When was it listed? May 2004
  • Category. building
  • Charter township. Oshtemo charter township
  • When was it built? 1877
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04000459 - 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

32 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Oshtemo Town Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALAMO TOWNSHIP FD 19272 - 2019
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1545 - 2018
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0006282 - 2019
24 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1462 - 2018
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP FD 0001069 - 2018
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0056461 - 2018
1 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000523 - 2019
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1162 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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 Oshtemo Town Hall: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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
Bynre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kalamazoo County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ravine Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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

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
Sparks-Anderson House0.9 miles2014
Drake, Benjamin and Maria (Ogden), Farm1.8 miles2012
Silas W. Kendall House2.3 miles1990
John Gibbs House3.1 miles1983
Parkwyn Village3.3 miles2022
Oaklands, The3.9 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000459 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalamazoo CountyAll 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.