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Photograph of Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway Depot
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Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Coopersville Station, originally built as the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway Depot is a historic railway station once used by the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway in Coopersville, Michigan. The Coopersville Area Historical Society and Museum is now housed in the station.”

Wikipedia article Coopersville station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ottawa 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. 363 W. Main St., Coopersville, 49045
  • When was it listed? February 1973
  • Category. building
  • National Register reference number. 73002294 - 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.

Storms near this property

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coopersville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006HailCoopersville$25,000One and three quarters to two inch hail was reported near Coopersville and in Marne.
July 2006HailCoopersville$15,000Numerous reports of three quarters to one inch hail were received from across Ottawa county.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCoopersville$10,000Three trees were blown down in the Coopersville area.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindCoopersville$10,000Several trees were blown down two miles north of Coopersville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCoopersville$10,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCoopersville$10,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindCoopersville$5,000Trees and power lines were downed in Coopersville.
June 2008HailCoopersville-One inch diameter hail was reported at I-96 and 68th street near Coopersville.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Coopersville-Trained spotters reported a very brief tornado touchdown. The tornado was classified as an F0, with winds of 40 to 72 m.p.h. The tornado did not produce any damage.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCoopersville-Three trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 73002294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ottawa CountyAll 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.
  • 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.