Vermontville Chapel and Academy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Vermontville Academy, also known as the First Congregational Chapel, is a building in Vermontville, Michigan, located at 106 North Main Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and is part of the Historic American Buildings Survey.”
Wikipedia article Vermontville Chapel and Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Eaton 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. N. Main St., Vermontville, 49096
When was it listed? August 1972
Category. building
Township. Vermontville township
National Register reference number. 72000610 - 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

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Vermontville Chapel and Academy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	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
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VERMONTVILLE FD 0000062 - 2018
12 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VERMONTVILLE FD 0000080 - 2019
5 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000046 - 2019
9 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VERMONTVILLE FD 0000054 - 2019
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASTLETON-MAPLEGROVE-NASHVILLE FD 0000068 - 2018
2 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VERMONTVILLE FD 0000050 - 2019
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLOTTE FD 0000195 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Eaton 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 Vermontville Chapel and Academy: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Crandell Ionia Road Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vermontville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Vermontville	$100,000	Numerous trees were blown down between Vermontville and Eaton Rapids.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Vermontville	$100,000	The Maple Valley High School in Vermontville suffered significant damage including a roof which was partially torn off and sections of windows which were blown in.
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Vermontville	$50,000	A very brief touchdown of a F0 tornado occurred in Vermontville. There were no injuries and fatalities. However, a tin roof was blown off of a house on First Street in Vermontville.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Vermontville	$25,000	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Vermontville	$25,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Vermontville	$10,000	The post office in Vermontville reported three quarters inch diameter hail.
August 2004	Hail	Vermontville	$10,000	Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by the public two miles south of Hoytville at the intersection of Needmore and Loucks roads. Law enforcement in Vermontville reported that a few large trees were blown down and blocked area roads.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vermontville	$10,000	Several power lines and trees were downed in Vermontville.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Vermontville	-	An Eaton county official reported that numerous trees were blown down just west of Vermontville.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Vermontville Opera House	0.4 miles	1993
	First Congregational Church	0.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000610 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eaton County	All 18 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.