Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“The Courthouse Square Museum is a former government building, and current historical museum, located at 100 West Lawrence Avenue in Charlotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Courthouse Square Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Eaton County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.71000389- 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
19 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Eaton County Courthouse
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Natural
3
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
4 workings within 5 miles of Eaton County Courthouse: 3 producers, 1 past producer.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Charlotte, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado.
The reports record 5 injuries. 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 NWS storm survey team determined that an EF-3 (Enhanced-Fujita Tornado Scale Rating) tornado with wind speeds estimated at 140 mph produced the most severe damage along a path from M-50 just north of Kinsel Highway to just west of M-100 and Vermontville Highway near Potterville, Michigan. The storm survey indicated a tornado path which was 200 to 300 yards wide and 6.5 miles long.||Fifteen homes were either destroyed or severely damaged. A roof was blown off a single story home and windward facing walls were blown in. The majority of the roof and garage from this home were not found. A roof was blown off of a two story home and the upper story front walls were blown in. Additional damage included the partial collapse of the upper story of a home, and another house was blown off of the foundation. Two barns were destroyed and another incurred heavy damage just west of Potterville.
A swath of damage approximately 12 miles long and 0.5 to 1 mile in width occurred SE of Charlotte to just NNE of Eaton Rapids. The damage resulted from a bowing segment of a line echo wave pattern which downed numerous trees and power lines. Several homes in the area sustained roof damage, and one home approximately 3 mi NW of Eaton Rapids was partially destroyed. However, that home was not properly attached to its foundation. Several barns were also damaged, one of which was destroyed.
A few trees and power lines were blown down in Charlotte. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across most of Eaton county between 10:25 and 10:35 E.S.T.
An isolated severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts that blew down numerous 12-16 inch diameter trees. Most of the trees were blown down along an area just under a mile long and a tenth of a mile wide in Charlotte.
A wet microburst just east of Charlotte in Eaton County totally destroyed a new home in Sandstone Estates which was under construction and pushed or moved several vehicles parked in the area. Eaton County police and fire department officials confirmed siting 2 funnel clouds with this storm, but neither funnel touched the ground.
Eaton County Central Dispatch reported trees, branches, and power lines were downed in and around the city of Charlotte. A Charlotte area newspaper reported a tree was downed on Lovett St. at the Prairie St. intersection. This tree pulled down power lines and damaged a power pole at the street corner.
Amateur radio operators reported a 24-inch diameter tree downed near the intersections of Clark and Oakland Roads in Charlotte. Power lines were also downed in the immediate vicinity.
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
5 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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