Evart Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

“The Evart Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district in Evart, Michigan located primarily along North and South Main Street, between East Fifth and the former railroad tracks. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.”
Wikipedia article Evart Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Osceola County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Chiefly, North and South Main Street bounded by East Eighth Street, East Fifth Street, River Street, and Pine Street, Evart, 49631
When was it listed? August 2025
Category. district
City. Evart city
National Register reference number. 100012093 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Evart Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HERSEY TOWNSHIP FD 0000117 - 2019
5 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EVART VFD 466 - 2019
18 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OSCEOLA 10
4 July 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EVART VFD 446 - 2019
24 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Evart Downtown Historic District: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Seagraves Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evart, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003	Hail	Evart	$20,000	A report of seven eighths inch diameter hail was received three miles northeast of Evart. One inch diameter hail was reported three miles west of Hersey.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Evart	$2,500	Large trees downed across a road near Evart, in Osceola Township.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Evart	$2,000	A tree and power line were blown down near Evart.
July 1996	Tornado (F0)	Evart	$2,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Evart	$1,000	Power lines were downed in Evart, resulting in power outages. The same thunderstorm sparked lightning fires in LeRoy, in the northwest portion of Osceola County.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Evart	-	Law enforcement estimated wind gusts in excess of 60 mph.
May 1997	Hail	Evart	-	Nickel sized hail reported.
September 1997	Hail	Evart	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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 100012093 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Osceola County	All 1 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.