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Photograph of Warren Township District No. 4 School
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Warren Township District No. 4 School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Warren Township District No. 4 School, also known as the Bunert School, is a one-room schoolhouse building located at 27900 Bunert Road in Warren, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1989.”

Wikipedia article Warren Township District No. 4 School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Macomb County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 27900 Bunert Rd., Warren, 48088
  • When was it listed? May 2012
  • Category. building
  • City. Warren city
  • National Register reference number. 12000308 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

75 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Warren Township District No. 4 School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 8 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 use39
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033121 - 2018
24 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034344 - 2019
23 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0011757 - 2019
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 0003704 - 2019
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 3373 - 2020
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR SHORES FD 4796 - 2019
30 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER LINE DPS 0009969 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Warren Township District No. 4 School: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Salt, Tantalum, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
General Electric Co--Warren, Mich.TantalumPast Producer
Jones & Laughlin--Warren, Mich.IronProducer
Marsack Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Huron Salt Co.SaltPast Producer
Alliance Brick Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
East Gass'sS Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Warren Brick Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warren, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2000LightningWarren1 hurtLightning struck the ground at an athletic field as kids were rushing to leave soccer practice. One boy close to the strike was thrown to the ground. He was not seriously hurt, though he stayed overnight at a local hospital for precautionary reasons.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWarren$5,800,000no account filed
May 2006LightningWarren$250,000Lightning caused major damage to a house on Arden Street in Warren. The bolt hit the house and a tree next to it, starting the house on fire and collapsing the roof. Total damages were estimated at $250K.
September 2008FloodWarren$50,000The Clinton River in Clinton Township crested at 18.32 feet during the evening of September 14th, while the Clinton River near Mount Clemens crested at 16.16 feet during the morning hours of September 16th.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWarren$4,000Two trees were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWarren-A tree was blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWarren-Numerous trees reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWarren-A power pole was reported down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWarren-A trained spotter reported trees down in Warren.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWarren-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWarren-Trained spotter measured a wind gust of 75 MPH.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWarren-A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWarren-A trained weather spotter reported 5 inch tree limbs down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWarren-The public reported a couple large trees blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2014HailWarren-no account filed
July 2012HailWarren-no account filed
May 2007HailWarren-no account filed
May 2007HailWarren-no account filed
May 2007HailWarren-no account filed
June 2006HailWarren-no account filed
June 2006HailWarren-no account filed
September 2006HailWarren-no account filed
April 2004HailWarren-no account filed
April 2001HailWarren-no account filed
June 2001HailWarren-no account filed
July 2001HailWarren-no account filed
June 2000HailWarren-no account filed
July 1997HailWarren-no account filed
July 1995HailWarren-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macomb 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Erin-Warren Fractional District No. 2 Schoolhouse2.5 miles2001
General Motors Technical Center3.3 miles2000
Edsel and Eleanor Ford House5.9 miles1979
William Upton House6.6 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000308 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macomb CountyAll 15 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.