Michigan Central Railroad Middleville Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Barry County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 128 High St., Middleville, 49333
When was it listed? March 2022
Category. building
Township. Thornapple township
National Register reference number. 100007564 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Michigan Central Railroad Middleville Depot between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 August 2019	Natural	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HASTINGS FD 0000430 - 2019
9 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 02
12 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 648 - 2019
7 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 02 - HARRIS CREEK RD GUN RANGE
7 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 Michigan Central Railroad Middleville Depot: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Currie and Duncan Lake Marl	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Barry Co Pit Yerington Const	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barry Co Road Comm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bohn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cole Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
April 2013	Flood	Middleville	$5,000,000	Significant flooding occurred on rivers and streams across Barry county due to heavy rainfall and antecedent high river levels and saturated grounds.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$100,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down across Barry county.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$50,000	Barry County Central Dispatch reported several large trees and power lines downed across the Middleville and Yankee Springs area of northwest Barry County. Many trees fell across roads, creating hazardous driving conditions for motorists. One Middleville home, at 3240 N. Yankee Springs Road (Highway M-37), sustained damage from 2 trees downed in the front yard. The downed trees damaged the resident's garage, front picture window, and roof.
July 2003	Hail	Middleville	$40,000	Numerous reports of hail were received from Middleville, including one report of one inch diameter hail 3.5 miles south Middleville off M-37.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$25,000	Several trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$25,000	A pole barn was blown off it's foundation and numerous trees were blown down just southeast of Middleville.
August 2003	Hail	Middleville	$15,000	One inch diameter hail was reported in Middleville.
May 2004	Hail	Middleville	$10,000	The public reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Middleville.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$10,000	Wind damage was reported and some power lines were downed by strong winds.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$10,000	Trees and power lines downed in Middleville.
September 2003	Hail	Middleville	$5,000	Three quarters inch hail was reported with an isolated severe thunderstorm two miles south of Middleville.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$2,500	Barry County Central Dispatch reported trees downed near the intersection of 108th and Whitneyville Road, 3 miles north of Middleville in Thornapple Township.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	$2,000	A large tree limb was blown down onto power lines that were also downed.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Middleville	-	Trees and wires down.

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.

Listed places nearby

3 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
John Carveth House	0.4 miles	1992
Chief Noonday Group Camp Historic District	5.4 miles	1996
Long Lake Group Camp Historic District	6.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007564 in Record Group 79.
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.