Photograph of Ezra E. and Florence (Holmes) Beardsley House — Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Beardsley, Ezra E. and Florence (Holmes), House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Ezra E. and Florence (Holmes) Beardsley House is a private house located at 1063 Holmes Road in Bronson Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”
Wikipedia article Ezra E. and Florence (Holmes) Beardsley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Branch County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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.
Address. 1063 Holmes Rd., Bronson Township, 49028
When was it listed? April 2015
Category. building
Township. Bronson township
National Register reference number. 15000157 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Beardsley, Ezra E. and Florence (Holmes), House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 6 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	2
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
1 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRONSON FD 0000103 - 2019
26 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRONSON FD 0000094 - 2019
17 March 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRONSON FD 0000075 - 2018
27 February 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRONSON FD 0000073 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Branch 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 15000157 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Branch County	All 17 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.