Indian Mission

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Indian Mission, now the Luckhard Museum, is a historic Native American Christian mission located at 590 East Bay Street in Sebewaing, Michigan. It was built in 1849 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Indian Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron 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. 590 E. Bay St., Sebewaing, 48759
When was it listed? September 1972
Category. building
Township. Sebewaing township
National Register reference number. 72000620 - 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Indian Mission between 2018 and 2019, burning about 3 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 use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEBEWAING TOWNSHIP FD 0015-18 - 2018
2 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEBEWAING TOWNSHIP FD 0012-18 - 2018
28 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SEBEWAING TOWNSHIP FD 0011-19 - 2019

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 Indian Mission: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Reinhold Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this property

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sebewaing, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 waterspout. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	$50,000	Dozens of trees and powerlines down.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	$5,000	Big trees and numerous wires reported blown down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	$2,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	$2,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Large tree blown down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Multiple 3+ inch tree limbs reported down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Trees and tree limbs reported blown down.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Scattered trees reported down in western and central parts of Huron county. Some locations include: Sebewaing, Owendale, Filion, and Ubly.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Trees reported down on wires.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Trees reported blown down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Power lines reported blown down.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Three to four inch diameter tree branches reported down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Wind toppled a large tree onto M-25 near Myer in Sebewaing Township. Local law enforcement also reported multiple trees and wires down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A tree was reported blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A trained weather spotter estimated a 65 mph wind gust.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which downed a power pole.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A trained weather spotter reported power lines blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A trained weather spotter reported large tree limbs down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	Local law enforcement reported large tree limbs blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	A spotter reported several 4 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
August 2023	Hail	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
June 1998	Waterspout	Sebewaing	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sebewaing	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000620 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Huron County	All 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.
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.