Hessel School

Built in 1937 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Hessel School is a former school building located at 3206 West Cedar Street in Hessel, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.”
Wikipedia article Hessel School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac County · listed in 2019 · category: Building · built in 1937, Colonial Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3206 West Cedar Street, Hessel, 49745
When was it listed? August 2019
Category. building
Township. Clark township
When was it built? 1937
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 100004234 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hessel School between 2003 and 2019, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
19 July 2015	Recreation and ceremony	6.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BAY CITY LAKE
10 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	38 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARK TOWNSHIP VFD 0201827 - 2018
14 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	BATTALION CEMETERY
16 May 2018	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HESSEL
16 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH HESSEL
15 May 2018	Natural	32 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HESSEL
13 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARK TOWNSHIP VFD 0201915 - 2019
1 May 2003	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	EAST BOUNDARY ROAD

Every fire recorded in Mackinac County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hessel School: 5 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mccready Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mike Mangene Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State of Michigan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Taylor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Whitehead Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mackinac County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hessel, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022	Hail	Hessel	-	Golf ball sized hail in Hessel. Time estimated by radar.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Hessel	-	Numerous 14-16 inch diameter trees down.
August 2008	Hail	Hessel	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mackinac 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 100004234 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac County	All 22 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.