Sparks-Anderson House

Built in 1852 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Sparks-Anderson House is a single-family home located at 7653 West Main Street in Oshtemo Township, Michigan, near Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
Wikipedia article Sparks-Anderson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1852, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sparks--Anderson House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7653 W. Main St., Oshtemo Township, 49009
When was it listed? April 2014
Category. building
Charter township. Oshtemo charter township
When was it built? 1852
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 14000125 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Sparks-Anderson House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 36 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	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
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
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALAMO TOWNSHIP FD 19272 - 2019
6 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MATTAWAN FD 096 - 2020
5 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1545 - 2018
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALAMAZOO DPS 0006282 - 2019
24 July 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1462 - 2018
17 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP FD 0001069 - 2018
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALAMAZOO DPS 0056461 - 2018
6 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1162 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sparks-Anderson House: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Shield Brother's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Bynre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kalamazoo County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Peters Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ravine Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Oshtemo Town Hall	0.9 miles	2004
Drake, Benjamin and Maria (Ogden), Farm	2.3 miles	2012
Silas W. Kendall House	2.9 miles	1990
John Gibbs House	4.0 miles	1983
Parkwyn Village	4.2 miles	2022
Oaklands, The	4.6 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000125 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalamazoo County	All 60 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.