Photograph of Davenport House — Photograph by Notorious4life, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Davenport Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Bauer Manor, also known as the Davenport House or Davenport Hotel, is a hotel located at 1280 U.S. Route 12 near the unincorporated community of Tipton in Franklin Township in northern Lenawee County, Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Davenport House (Franklin Township, Michigan), 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1280 US-12, Franklin Township, 49287
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. building
Township. Franklin township
National Register reference number. 07000383 - 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Davenport Hotel between 2005 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 July 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAND LAKE VFD 0000118 - 2018
14 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 490 - 2020
12 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000218 - 2018
27 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2019	Natural	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 314 - 2019
5 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLINTON FD 090 - 2019
3 April 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 225 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Davenport Hotel: 1 producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gallop Pit No. 4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Irish Hills Towers	2.2 miles	2007
Saint Joseph Church and Shrine	2.6 miles	2007
John W. and Erena Alexander Rogers Keeney Farm	3.1 miles	2001
Nathaniel S. Wheeler House	3.3 miles	1975
Saint Michael and All Angels' Episcopal Church and Cambridge Township Cemetery	5.4 miles	2004
S. Walker's Hotel	5.5 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000383 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.
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.