Elk Rapids Township Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Elk Rapids Township Hall is a former government building located on River Street in Elk Rapids, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Elk Rapids Township Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Antrim County · listed in 1977 · 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. River St., Elk Rapids, 49343
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. building
National Register reference number. 77000709 - 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

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk Rapids, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk Rapids	$4,000	Large trees downed along US-31.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk Rapids	$2,000	A large tree was blown down on South Elk Lake Rd near Clearwater Point Road, blocking the roadway.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk Rapids	-	Scattered trees and power lines down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk Rapids	-	6 inch diameter limbs down.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Elk Rapids	-	4 to 6 inches of water covered secondary roads.
August 1995	Tornado (F0)	Elk Rapids	-	North of Elk Rapids, a cold air waterspout came ashore with enough force to break some six inch limbs out of some trees, and create the classic "Freight Train" sound heard by at least four people in nearby houses. Some minor roof damage was also noted on one house. The tree damage was between two houses and the track was less than .1 mile long. The waterspout dissipated quickly after coming on shore. No convective activity was observed, by any radar, in northern lower Michigan during that night.
August 2015	Hail	Elk Rapids	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Elk Rapids	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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 77000709 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Antrim County	All 6 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.