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Photograph of S. Walker's Hotel
Photograph by Curt Teich, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

S. Walker's Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Walker's Hotel, also known as the Brick Walker Tavern, is a former hotel/tavern located at 11705 US-12 in Cambridge Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”

Wikipedia article S. Walker's Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Walker's, S., Hotel - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 11705 US-12, Cambridge Township, 49230
  • When was it listed? May 2007
  • Category. building
  • Township. Cambridge township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 07000381 - 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

37 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of S. Walker's Hotel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 11 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 use14
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
27 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020
26 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
20 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020
14 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000436 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 S. Walker's Hotel: 3 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
Cliff Brownell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Brothers Lanawee County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stevick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee 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
Walker Tavern0.2 miles1971
Saint Michael and All Angels' Episcopal Church and Cambridge Township Cemetery0.3 miles2004
Saint Joseph Church and Shrine3.0 miles2007
Irish Hills Towers3.4 miles2007
Nathaniel S. Wheeler House5.2 miles1975
Davenport Hotel5.5 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000381 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee CountyAll 45 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.