Sherman City Union Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Sherman City Union Church is a historic church at 11429 West Vernon Road in Sherman City, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Sherman City Union Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Isabella 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11429 W. Vernon Rd., Sherman City, 48632
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. building
Township. Sherman township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 04000645 - 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sherman City Union Church between 1994 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000254 - 2019
16 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000193 - 2018
13 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000225 - 2019
21 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2018	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ISABELLA 01
9 May 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 May 2016	Arson/incendiarism	6.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherman City, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Sherman City	$25,000	A very brief F0 tornado touched down, and blew an occupied mobile home off it's blocks.

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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 04000645 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Isabella County	All 6 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.
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.