Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“The Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, was established by an act of the United States Congress in 1891.”
Wikipedia article Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Isabella County · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bounded by Crawford, Pickard, Bamber, River Rds., Mount Pleasant, 48858
Category. building
City. Mount Pleasant city
National Register reference number. 100001795 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

33 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School between 2003 and 2020, burning about 138 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000512 - 2019
25 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000580 - 2019
13 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000543 - 2019
29 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000492 - 2018
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000504 - 2019
18 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000465 - 2018
8 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000376 - 2018
29 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000437 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Isabella County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
	Wademans Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Wing Road Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pleasant, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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
May 1997	Hail	Mount Pleasant	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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

4 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
Michigan Condensed Milk Factory	1.1 miles	1983
Doughty House	1.3 miles	1974
Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District	1.3 miles	2014
St. John's Episcopal Church	1.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001795 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Isabella County	All 6 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.