Hudsonville Christian School

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Hudsonville Christian School Building is a school building located at 5692 School Avenue in Hudsonville, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”
Wikipedia article Hudsonville Christian School Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1917.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5692 School Ave., Hudsonville, 49426
When was it listed? March 2008
Category. building
City. Hudsonville city
When was it built? 1917
National Register reference number. 08000224 - 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 Hudsonville Christian School between 2018 and 2020, 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1
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
8 August 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRANDVILLE FD 1256 - 2019
13 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GEORGETOWN FD 0000465 - 2018
20 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HUDSONVILLE FD 19358 - 2019
15 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19411 - 2019
8 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ZEELAND TOWNSHIP FD 19356 - 2019
1 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRANDVILLE FD 766 - 2018
7 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GEORGETOWN FD 0000198 - 2019
28 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GEORGETOWN FD 0000244 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hudsonville Christian School: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
De Went Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Huizenga Gravel Co., Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J V Burkett Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ottawa County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ottawa County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ottowa County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Standard Sand Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Shore Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Shore Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this property

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hudsonville, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 16 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	$50,000	A peak wind gust of 70 mph was reported.
July 2003	Hail	Hudsonville	$50,000	Two inch diameter hail was reported in Hudsonville. This was the largest hail report received across our area for this event.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	$25,000	A tree was blown down onto a house near Hudsonville.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	$25,000	Power lines were blown down on Chicago Drive in Hudsonville.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	$25,000	Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Hudsonville and in Georgetown townships.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	$25,000	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Hudsonville	$5,000	Observers in Hudsonville reported three quarters inch diameter hail.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	$2,000	A few large tree limbs were downed in the three block area of Hudsonville.
April 2024	Hail	Hudsonville	-	A report of three quarters inch hail was received from near Hudsonville.
September 2021	Hail	Hudsonville	-	Hail to an inch in diameter fell near Hudsonville.
August 2017	Hail	Hudsonville	-	A trained spotter reported that an isolated severe thunderstorm produced hail up to an inch in diameter near Hudsonville.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Hudsonville	-	Seventeen vehicles had to be pulled out of flood waters in the intersection of Church and Main Street in Jenison.
July 2011	Hail	Hudsonville	-	A trained spotter estimated hail size of one inch in diameter at 44th and Kenowa.
July 2008	Hail	Hudsonville	-	Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported by a trained spotter one mile east of Hudsonville.
July 1998	Lightning	Hudsonville	-	Lightning struck the roof of a three-bedroom home at 7836 Mooring Court in the Hidden Ridge Estate Complex in Georgetown Township at 6:10 am EDT. Most of the house was destroyed in the blaze touched off by the strike. No injuries were reported. A damage estimate was not available.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hudsonville	-	Power lines were downed near Hudsonville, in Georgetown Township. A damage estimate was not available.
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
March 2026	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Hudsonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ottawa County	All 29 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.