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Photograph of First Congregational Church of Ovid
Photograph by GPWITT, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Main Street Building, United Church of Ovid

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The First Congregational Church of Ovid is a religious building in Ovid, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”

Wikipedia article First Congregational Church of Ovid, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 222 Main St., Ovid, 48866
  • When was it listed? January 1972
  • Category. building
  • City. Ovid city
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 72000607 - 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Main Street Building, United Church of Ovid between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVID-MIDDLEBURY FD 0000092 - 2019
1 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVID-MIDDLEBURY FD 0000086 - 2019
28 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOVID-MIDDLEBURY FD 0000054 - 2019
28 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesELSIE FD 1900025 - 2019
26 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000018 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Building, United Church of Ovid: 4 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Central Mich Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orlando Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Owosso Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Polhamus Sand and Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ovid, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOvid$150,000no account filed
June 2021HailOvid$50,000A trained spotter measured baseball sized hail in Ovid and also reported that several trees and wires were blown down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOvid$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds leveled 2 buildings near the intersection of Hollister and Taft roads in Ovid Township. In addition, several buildings in the area had minor roof damage and several trees were downed. Destroyed buildings were a pole barn and a garage. No one was injured.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOvid$10,000Numerous trees were blown down in Ovid.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOvid$10,000no account filed
June 2006HailOvid$5,000Seven eighths inch hail was reported in Ovid.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOvid$3,000Two trees were blown down and blocked a road in Ovid.
June 1997HailOvid-Public reported quarter-sized hail in Sleepy Hollow State Park.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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

1 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
Grist Mill Bridge, Dam and Mill Site6.0 miles2015

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000607 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton CountyAll 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.
  • 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.