Photograph of Waterloo Farm Museum — Photograph by kennethaw88, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Siebold Farm/Ruehle (Realy) Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Waterloo Farm Museum is a museum located at 9998 Waterloo-Munith Road in Waterloo Township, Michigan. It was originally the Siebold Farm and then the Realy Farm.”
Wikipedia article Waterloo Farm Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1973 · 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. 9998 Waterloo-Munith Rd., Waterloo Township, 49240
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
Township. Waterloo township
National Register reference number. 73000952 - 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Siebold Farm/Ruehle (Realy) Farm between 1996 and 2020, burning about 75 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/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	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
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201910
15 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 202010
2 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WASHTENAW 01
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201904
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 100 - 2020
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HENRIETTA TOWNSHIP FD 101 - 2020
3 April 2019	Smoking	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	STOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201903
3 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Siebold Farm/Ruehle (Realy) Farm: 1 producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Grass Lake Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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 73000952 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 29 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.