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Photograph of Grindstone City Historic District
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grindstone City Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Grindstone City Historic District is an industrial historic district located on M-25 in Grindstone City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.”

Wikipedia article Grindstone City Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron County · listed in 1971 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. On U.S. 25, Grindstone City, 48467
  • When was it listed? September 1971
  • Category. district
  • Township. Port Austin township
  • National Register reference number. 71000393 - 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grindstone City Historic District in 2018, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT AUSTIN FD 0000018 - 2018
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKINDE AREA FD 0000011 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grindstone City Historic District: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grind Stone City Sandstone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Huron 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Huron City Historic District3.6 miles1995
Port Austin Reef Light4.6 miles2011
Winsor and Snover Bank Building4.8 miles1987
Charles G. Learned House4.8 miles1984
Smith-Culhane House4.9 miles2001
Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse7.4 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000393 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Huron CountyAll 27 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.