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Photograph of Barn at 4277 Irish Road
Photograph by David Lang, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Barn at 4277 Irish Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Barn at 4277 Irish Road in Davison, Michigan is a round barn built from concrete block with a round gambrel roof containing a gable dormer. It was built by farmer Erwin Gabel in the early twentieth century.”

Wikipedia article Barn at 4277 Irish Road, 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. 4277 Irish Rd., Davison, 48423
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Genesee County MRA
  • Township. Davison township
  • National Register reference number. 82000499 - 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 Barn at 4277 Irish Road 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 use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 437 - 2020
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18269 - 2018
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 19259 - 2019
12 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 174 - 2020
7 May 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND BLANC FD 186 - 2020
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18180 - 2018
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND BLANC FD 0007457 - 2019
3 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesATLAS 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 Barn at 4277 Irish Road: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this property

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davison, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023HailDavison$20,000,000Reports of widespread hail damage across Davison, which included car and house damage.
June 2006LightningDavison$55,000A very intense lightning bolt struck a home, causing severe damage. The strike left a hole in the side of one wall and had electrical outlets smoking. Damages were estimated at $15K to the property and $40K to contents. Residents were home but no one was injured.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDavison$15,000Numerous large trees limbs were reported down along with power lines.
September 2005LightningDavison$15,000Lightning struck a home in the Continental North mobile home park, causing a fire in the roof.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDavison$5,000A steel flag pole was bent, along with damage to a roof.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison$3,000Two to three foot diameter tree reported down on a house, along with downed power lines.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDavison-Tree reported down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDavison-Several trees downed along with power lines and tree branches. Flint area also had one tree reported down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDavison-Numerous wires down on roads.
July 2023HailDavison-Reports of baseball size hail in Davison.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDavison-Trees reported down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDavison-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
July 2017Flash FloodDavison-Richfield Road was washed out.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison-A 1 foot diameter tree reported blown down.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison-A tree was reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison-A tree was snapped in half.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDavison-A trained spotter measured a 74 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDavison-Numerous tree limbs were reported down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDavison-A local newspaper reported a tree blown down on a power line along Irish Rd, just south of Potter Rd.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindDavison-A spotter reported a wind gust of 60 mph in the community of Davison.
July 2023HailDavison-no account filed
July 2023HailDavison-no account filed
June 2013HailDavison-no account filed
June 2009HailDavison-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDavison-no account filed
May 2003HailDavison-no account filed
July 2003HailDavison-no account filed
August 2001HailDavison-no account filed
December 1998Thunderstorm WindDavison-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Atlas Grange Hallunder 500 feet1982
John McAra House2.3 miles1982
Hegel Road Historic District4.3 miles1982
First Baptist Church of Grand Blanc5.1 miles1983
House at 1339 Cummings Road5.4 miles1982
Alanson Green Farm House5.6 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000499 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee CountyAll 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.