Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district roughly bounded by Mosher, Franklin, Illinois and Washington Streets in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
Wikipedia article Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Isabella County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Mosher, Franklin, Illinois & Washington Sts., Isabella, 48858
When was it listed? December 2014
Category. district
City. Mount Pleasant city
National Register reference number. 14001043 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 143 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	8
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000512 - 2019
25 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000580 - 2019
15 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-26 - 2020
13 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000543 - 2019
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-22 - 2020
29 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000492 - 2018
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000504 - 2019
18 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MT PLEASANT FD 0000465 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Isabella County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
	Wademans Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Wing Road Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Isabella 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Doughty House	0.2 miles	1974
Michigan Condensed Milk Factory	0.3 miles	1983
St. John's Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	1982
Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School	1.3 miles

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001043 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Isabella County	All 6 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.