Hickory Lodge No. 345

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“Hickory Corners Masonic Temple, also known as Hickory Lodge No. 345 is a Masonic Temple located at 4558 West Hickory Road in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.”
Wikipedia article Hickory Corners Masonic Temple, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Barry County · listed in 2021 · category: Building · built in 1912.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 4558 West Hickory Rd., Hickory Corners, 49060
When was it listed? April 2021
Category. building
Township. Barry township
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number. 100006410 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Lodge No. 345 between 2003 and 2020, burning about 72 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
18 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 278 - 2020
6 June 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 178 - 2020
10 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DELTON FD 0000221 - 2018
8 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUGUSTA-ROSS TWP FD 0000073 - 2019
7 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
6 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 01
30 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018
30 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Lodge No. 345: 2 past producers, 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Leonard Bros Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Rieth-Riley Construction Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stoney Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this property

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Corners, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2004: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hickory Corners	$50,000	Several large trees which were greater than twenty inches in diameter were blown down three miles east of Hickory Corners, in Barry county.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hickory Corners	$10,000	The public reported several trees were blown down two miles north of Hickory Corners.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hickory Corners	$5,000	Two trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts just west of Hickory Corners.
June 1998	Hail	Hickory Corners	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Hickory Corners	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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 100006410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barry County	All 9 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.