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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Allegan County · listed in 2022 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Saugatuck Gap Filler Annex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 753 Park St., Saugatuck, 49453
- When was it listed? December 2022
- Category. structure
- City. Saugatuck city
- National Register reference number. 100008508 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Saugatuck Gap Filler Annex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN #8 |
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018 |
| 16 May 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018 |
| 28 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 02 |
| 7 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 8.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 01 |
| 26 March 2019 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2019186 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAAFSCHAP FD 2018146 - 2018 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saugatuck Gap Filler Annex: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laketown Site | Silica | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
12 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saugatuck, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Saugatuck | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Saugatuck | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $20,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Saugatuck and Fennville. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $20,000 | Several trees were blown down in Saugatuck and Allegan by thunderstorm wind gusts, as reported by area law enforcement. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Saugatuck | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Saugatuck | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | - | A trained weather spotter reported a 81 mph wind gust measured by his local anemometer. The spotter also reported a tree was downed across Michigan Highway 89 in the southern part of Saugatuck Township. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | - | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in Saugatuck. |
| April 1998 | Hail | East Saugatuck | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Saugatuck | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Saugatuck Pump House | 0.1 miles | 2015 |
 | Leiendecker's Inn-Coral Gables | 0.4 miles | 2009 |
 | All Saints' Episcopal Church | 0.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Warner P. Sutton House | 0.8 miles | 1992 |
 | Lake Shore Chapel | 1.0 miles | 1997 |
 | Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harbor | 1.1 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008508 in Record Group 79. |
| Allegan County | All 33 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.