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One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Eden Springs Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 789 M-139, Benton Harbor, 49022
- When was it listed? December 2023
- Category. district
- Charter township. Benton charter township
- National Register reference number. 100009649 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
65 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Eden Springs Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 14 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 | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOSEPH FD 228 - 2020 |
| 1 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOSEPH CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 2019068 - 2019 |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST JOSEPH FD 159 - 2019 |
| 7 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019 |
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BENTON HARBOR FD 293 - 2020 |
| 22 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020 |
| 22 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019 |
| 19 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019 |
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 Eden Springs Park: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joseph Terminal Mill | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
11 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benton Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | $3,000 | A tree fell onto power lines. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Emergency management officials reported a large tree down onto power lines. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Reports of trees down across roads just south of Benton Heights. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Trees down around Berrien County, including Benton Township. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Trees were reported blown down in Benton Harbor as well as south of Waltervliet. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Benton Harbor | - | Emergency management reported water above car tires flowing across I-94. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Trained spotter reported trees down in Benton Harbor. Winds were estimated near 70 MPH. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Law enforcement reported trees down in Benton Harbor. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Numerous trees reported down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benton Harbor | - | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Benton Harbor. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Benton Harbor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Shiloh House | 0.3 miles | 1972 |
 | Mary's City of David | 0.4 miles | 2009 |
 | Wendell P. and Harriet Rounds Robbins House | 0.5 miles | 2007 |
 | Fidelity Building | 1.2 miles | 2002 |
 | Blossomland Bridge | 2.3 miles | 1999 |
| Whitcomb Hotel | 2.5 miles | 2021 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009649 in Record Group 79. |
| Berrien County | All 32 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.