Photograph of Nahma and Northern Railway no. 5 — Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5 is a locomotive located at the corner of Main Street and River Street in Nahma Township, Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive No. 5, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Delta County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1912.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St. at River St., Nahma Township, 49864
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. structure
Township. Nahma township
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number. 06001327 - 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5 between 1995 and 2018, burning about 15 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 burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
16 August 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.1 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	CENTENNIAL
20 June 2016	Other causes	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	MAC
7 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201811 - 2018
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	LL FIRE
18 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	RIVER FIRE
18 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NAHMA TOWNSHIP VFD 0000017 - 2018
18 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	EE FIRE
1 May 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	ECONOLINE

Every fire recorded in Delta 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bay de Noquet Lumber Company Waste Burner	0.4 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001327 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delta County	All 15 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.