Photograph of Arvon Township Hall — Photograph by Yooperann, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Avon Township Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Arvon Township Hall is a public building located on Park Road in Skanee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.”
Wikipedia article Arvon Township Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Baraga County · listed in 1981 · 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. Park Rd., Skanee, 49962
When was it listed? July 1981
Category. building
Township. Arvon township
National Register reference number. 81000302 - 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

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Avon Township Hall between 1994 and 2013, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROLAND LAKE
27 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARVON FIRE
27 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 June 2009	Other causes	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SKANNEE RD.
18 May 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	THE BONEYARD

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Avon Township Hall: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Vanadium, Zinc, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Arvon Slate Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rowland Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Skanee Area	Lead, Vanadium, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Vanadate

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skanee, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Skanee	$2,000	Several large trees downed at cabin on Huron Bay.
June 2012	Hail	Skanee	-	The ground was white with hail.
June 2006	Hail	Skanee	-	Two-inch diameter hail fell at cabin on Huron Bay.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Skanee	-	10 inch diameter trees downed.

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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 81000302 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baraga 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.
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.