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Photograph of Somerville Barn
Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Somerville Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Somerville Barn, also known as the Caltrider Barn, is part of a farmstead located at 1050 North College Road in Alaiedon Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Somerville Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Ingham County · listed in 2005 · 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. 1050 N. College Rd., Alaiedon Township, 48854
  • When was it listed? March 2005
  • Category. building
  • Township. Alaiedon township
  • National Register reference number. 05000152 - 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 Somerville Barn between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 5 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 159 - 2019
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 157 - 2019
7 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELHI TOWNSHIP FD 1766 - 2018
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0011146 - 2018
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASON FD 131 - 2020
3 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELHI TOWNSHIP FD 1714 - 2018
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLANSING FD 0012686 - 2019
17 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELHI TOWNSHIP FD 1866 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Ingham County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Somerville Barn: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 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
Capitol PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dell Road Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Luoma Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snider Farms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sniders No 1 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tomlinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weaver Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ingham 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
Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot2.7 miles1985
Philip Nice House2.7 miles1985
Maple Grove Cemetery2.8 miles1985
Merrylees-Post House2.8 miles1985
Westside Neighborhood Historic District2.9 miles1985
Ash Street-Sycamore Creek Bridge2.9 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ingham CountyAll 55 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.