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Photograph of First Presbyterian Church
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First Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 6505 Church Street in Cass City, Michigan. It was built in 1907 and added to the National Register in 2006.”

Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Cass City, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tuscola County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6505 Church St., Cass City, 48726
  • When was it listed? November 2006
  • Category. building
  • Township. Elkland township
  • National Register reference number. 06001029 - 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000084 - 2018
7 April 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAGETOWN-ELMWOOD TWP FD 19F0375 - 2019
3 April 2010Debris and open burning70 acresOttawa National Wildlife Refuge4/3/2010
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000044 - 2018
2 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 1995Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Tuscola 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 First Presbyterian Church: 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Schwaderer Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuckeys Ready Mix and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this property

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cass City, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City$10,000A large tree fell through the roof of a home on Elmwood Road just south of Cass City. Total property damage was estimated at roughly $10K.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Cass City$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCass City$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCass City$3,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCass City$2,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCass City$200Several large tree branches fell across Cemetary Rd just south of Cass City.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCass City-Multiple trees reported down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCass City-At least half a dozen of trees reported down across southern Tuscola county.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCass City-A tree was reported down on the road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trees reported down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCass City-A two foot diameter tree was reported blown down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCass City-Numerous trees and wires reported down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCass City-Large tree blown down, along with 12 inch limbs.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCass City-Six to eight inch tree limbs down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCass City-A small shed was blown over.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCass City-Multiple trees were reported blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCass City-Two trees were reported blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter reported a tree down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trained spotters reported trees and power lines down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter reported an 8 inch tree limb blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which brought down a large tree.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trees and wires were reported blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCass City-A trained weather spotter estimated a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCass City-Trained spotters reported 15 inch diameter tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds in Gagetown.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCass City-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2026HailCass City-no account filed
July 2007HailCass City-no account filed
August 2007HailCass City-no account filed
June 2005HailCass City-no account filed
May 1998HailCass City-no account filed
May 1998HailCass City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001029 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuscola CountyAll 14 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.
  • 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.