Saint Joseph Church and Shrine

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Saint Joseph Church and Shrine is a historic district located at 8742 U.S. Route 12 in the Irish Hills region in rural Cambridge Township in Lenawee County, Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Saint Joseph Church and Shrine, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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 11 structuress, 5 objectss, 2 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8742 US-12, Cambridge Township, 49265
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. district
Township. Cambridge township
Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 07000382 - 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

31 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph Church and Shrine between 2018 and 2020, burning about 55 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 use	11
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
20 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
27 August 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020
26 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
20 July 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADDISON FD 0000888 - 2019
19 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 586 - 2019
15 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 493 - 2020
14 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020
6 May 2019	Natural	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019

Every fire 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Irish Hills Towers	0.4 miles	2007
Davenport Hotel	2.6 miles	2007
Saint Michael and All Angels' Episcopal Church and Cambridge Township Cemetery	2.9 miles	2004
S. Walker's Hotel	3.0 miles	2007
Nathaniel S. Wheeler House	3.0 miles	1975
Walker Tavern	3.1 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000382 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee County	All 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.