Fanckboner-Nichols Farmstead

Built in 1840 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Fanckboner-Nichols Farmstead is a farmhouse and associated buildings located at 5992 West VW Avenue in Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article Fanckboner-Nichols Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1840, Greek Revival architecture.

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 3 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fanckboner--Nichols Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5992 West VW Ave., Prairie Ronde Township, 49087
When was it listed? May 2007
Category. building
Township. Prairie Ronde township
When was it built? 1840
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 07000387 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fanckboner-Nichols Farmstead between 2018 and 2019, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 420 - 2018
2 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000355 - 2018
6 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000286 - 2019
22 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000334 - 2019
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000305 - 2019
20 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORTAGE FD 0001669 - 2018
11 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000303 - 2018
11 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORTAGE FD 0001547 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo 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

5 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
Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House	1.9 miles	1982
Lee Paper Company Mill Complex	6.5 miles	2016
Vicksburg Historic District	6.9 miles	2022
Vicksburg Union Depot	7.0 miles	2024
Booth-Dunham Estate	7.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalamazoo County	All 60 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.