Lipsett Hardware Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Lipsett Hardware Building, currently the Pickford Area Historical Society Museum, is a commercial building located at 175 Main Street in Pickford, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.”
Wikipedia article Lipsett Hardware Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 2013 · 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. 175 Main St., Pickford, 49774
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. building
Township. Pickford township
National Register reference number. 12001171 - 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lipsett Hardware Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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	5
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
4 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PICKFORD VFD 2019-17 - 2019
24 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	3 MILE
20 May 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RABER TOWNSHIP VFD 0000003 - 2020
14 May 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PICKFORD VFD 2020-06 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickford, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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	Pickford	$12,000	Trees downed. A scoreboard at the Pickford High School football field was destroyed.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pickford	$4,000	Social media reports with pictures showing house siding and horse shelter roof blown off.
July 1994	Hail	Pickford	-	One-inch diameter hail fell from 1300 EST to 1310 EST near Pickford. Canadian radio news reported crop damage on St. Joseph Island 25 miles East of Pickford, south of Neebish Island. No reports of crop damage in Chippewa County, where only hay is grown.
July 2007	Hail	Pickford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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 12001171 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 26 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.
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.