Atlas Grange Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Atlas Grange Hall in Atlas, Michigan is a historic building located at 8530 Perry Road in Atlas, Michigan that served as a Grange Hall, as a Town Hall, and as a post office. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of a group nomination of Genesee County properties.”
Wikipedia article Atlas Grange Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 1982 · 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. 8530 Perry Rd., Atlas, 48423
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Genesee County MRA
Township. Davison township
National Register reference number. 82000497 - 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Atlas Grange Hall between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	3

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
24 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 437 - 2020
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18269 - 2018
8 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 19259 - 2019
12 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 174 - 2020
7 May 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND BLANC FD 186 - 2020
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18180 - 2018
5 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND BLANC FD 0007457 - 2019
3 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ATLAS TOWNSHIP FD 0000068 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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 Atlas Grange Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Kurtz Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this property

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlas, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlas	$30,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Atlas	$3,000	Lightning struck near the Goodrich Middle School. The lightning strike hit close enough to knock out some low voltage equipment. That includes items such as keyless entry, the PA system, and the fire panel and alarm.
May 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Atlas	-	A brief tornado touched down near Atlas. The tornado developed near Maple Ave and Atlas Road, causing damage to both soft and hardwood trees. The tornado continued northeast tracking just north of Goodrich and crossing M-15 before dissipating. Estimated peak winds 75 mph.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlas	-	A large tree and several large tree limbs were reported down. A shed was also damaged, as the roof was blown off.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Atlas	-	One and half foot diameter tree reported down.
March 2006	Hail	Atlas	-	Spotters reported hail 2 inches deep.
July 2012	Hail	Atlas	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Atlas	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Atlas	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Atlas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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

6 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
Barn at 4277 Irish Road	under 500 feet	1982
John McAra House	2.3 miles	1982
Hegel Road Historic District	4.3 miles	1982
First Baptist Church of Grand Blanc	5.1 miles	1983
House at 1339 Cummings Road	5.4 miles	1982
Alanson Green Farm House	5.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000497 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee County	All 73 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.