Built in 1870 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“Wagner's Block is a historic commercial building located at 143 West Michigan Avenue in Marshall, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Wagner's Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1870, Second Empire style, by John M. Van Osdel.
National Register reference number.71000385- 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
36 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Wagner's Block
between 2004 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 3 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
19
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Natural
3
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Wagner's Block: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.
A tornado touched down near sixteen and a quarter mile road and moved east northeast and uprooted or snapped hundreds of trees along its path. The tornado heavily damaged a few outbuildings and caused roof damage to a number of homes with shingles ripped off and tore away siding. The tornado ended southwest of twenty one and a half mile road and L drive north. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
A Calhoun county official reported that several roads were flooded particularly near Marshall where water approached some area homes before receding. A co-op observer reported total rainfall of 3.5 inches on old route 27 between Marshall and Tekonsha.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts blew down numerous trees and power lines, some of which landed on roads, across the southern portion of Calhoun county from Ceresco to Homer.
Two eight inch diameter trees were blown down in Marshall, multiple trees were blown down across a road in Albion township, and numerous trees were blown down in Tekonsha.
The Battle Creek Enquirer reported tree damage on a house in the 500 block of North Marshall Street. A large tree fell down and punched a hole in the roof of the home's front porch. No one was injured. A damage estimate was not available.
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.
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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