Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“The Williamston Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district consisting of the first blocks of East and West Grand River Avenue, and the first block of South Putnam Street in Williamston, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.”
Wikipedia article Williamston Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 55 National Register listings published here for Ingham County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
National Register reference number.12001029- 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
9 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Williamston Downtown Historic District
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Williamston Downtown Historic District: 2 producers, 2 past producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Williamston, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 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.
The tornado caused damage to multiple homes including a two story home that lost its rood. Several other homes had roof and siding damage. There was also damage to barn and outbuildings along the path. Tree damage was also noted during the survey.
The public reported that golf ball sized hail fell two miles south of Williamston. A report from a gas station in that area also noted that a one foot diameter tree was blown down near Williamston road in the area near Interstate 96 and Williamston road.
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
1 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.
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.
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