East Ward School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The East Ward School, also known as the Teresa Merrill School, was an educational building located at 106 North Traver Street in St. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article East Ward School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1980 · 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. 106 N. Traver St., St. Johns, 48879
When was it listed? May 1980
Category. building
City. St. Johns city
National Register reference number. 80001850 - 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of East Ward School between 2018 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
10 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0003755 - 2018
12 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0003948 - 2019
8 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0003892 - 2019
25 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DALLAS TOWNSHIP FD 2019009 - 2019
3 March 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0003652 - 2018
28 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0003885 - 2019
16 March 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0003661 - 2018
9 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOHNS FD 0004040 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of East Ward School: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Moore Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
American Excavating Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clinton County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ionia Co. Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Karber Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Standard Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Giles J. Gibbs Building-Sugar Bowl	0.5 miles	2000
Union School	0.7 miles	1980
Stony Creek Bridge	6.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001850 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton 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.
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.