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Photograph of Whitney Tavern Stand
Photograph by Robert Worcester, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Whitney Tavern Stand

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Whitney Tavern Stand served as an inn and local gathering place in Cascade Township, Michigan for fifty years after its construction in the 1852-53 period. In its first few years it served as a stop for stagecoaches on the lines that, connecting Battle Creek, Hastings, and Kalamazoo with Grand Rapids, passed through Whitneyville.”

Wikipedia article Whitney Tavern Stand, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 2007 · 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. 5283 Whitneyville Ave., Cascade Township, 49302
  • When was it listed? February 2007
  • Category. building
  • Charter township. Cascade charter township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06001326 - 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

47 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Whitney Tavern Stand between 2018 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3

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
20 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 1208 - 2018
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 512 - 2020
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGAINES TOWNSHIP/DUTTON FD 300 - 2020
9 June 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 452 - 2020
17 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 893 - 2020
6 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALTO-BOWNE TOWNSHIP FD 0000103 - 2019
2 May 2020Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 362 - 2020
18 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 816 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitney Tavern Stand: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Grand Rap Clay Prod Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Chadwick Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mathews Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kent 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

4 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
Thornapple River Drive Bridge5.1 miles1990
Ada Covered Bridge5.9 miles1970
Graham House7.5 miles1972
Downtown Lowell Historic District7.6 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001326 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent CountyAll 57 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.