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Photograph of Marlborough Historic District
Photograph by Great Northern Portland Cement Co, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marlborough Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Marlborough Historic District is a cement factory located on James Road in Pleasant Plains Township, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”

Wikipedia article Marlborough Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1972 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. James Rd., Marlborough, 49304
  • When was it listed? September 1972
  • Category. district
  • Township. Pleasant Plains township
  • National Register reference number. 72000630 - 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Marlborough Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,331 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 were 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
Debris and open burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony27
Power generation/transmission/distribution26
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking6
Fireworks5
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTIMBER STAND IMPROVE
6 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBARSKI
4 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestBLOOD CREEK
21 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestDIAL-A-RIDE
2 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestHAIRCUT
17 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestASTER
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSCHOOL

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Marlborough Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Lake County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northern Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Idlewild Historic District3.5 miles1979
Idlewild Historic District (Boundary Increase)3.8 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 4 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.