Pioneer State Bank No. 36

Built in 1885 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Pioneer State Bank No. 36 is a bank building located at 4046 Huron Street (M-90) in the village of North Branch in North Branch Township in northern Lapeer County, Michigan. The bank stands as the oldest bank institution in North Branch.”
Wikipedia article Pioneer State Bank No. 36, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Lapeer County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1885, Renaissance Revival architecture.

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. 4046 Huron St., North Branch, 48461
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Township. North Branch township
When was it built? 1885
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82002846 - 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer State Bank No. 36 between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
12 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAPEER 01
4 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000080 - 2020
12 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BRANCH TOWNSHIP FD 0000021 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lapeer 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 Pioneer State Bank No. 36: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Nolan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Branch, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2006	Lightning	North Branch	1 hurt	A 27 year old male was struck by lightning while inside his home. The lightning struck just as he was closing an aluminum storm door that was blown open by the wind. It first hit his backyard and traveled up the porch, to the storm door, and through his body. He was barefoot at the time and the lightning knocked him to the floor in pain. He was unable to talk for awhile but refused to be transported to the hospital. His arm was swollen the following day and his joints remained stiff.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	$6,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	$3,000	Power lines reported down.
August 2006	Lightning	North Branch	$2,500	A local newspaper reported that lightning struck a home on Swaffer Rd, causing electrical problems. The family was shocked whenever they touched a grounded object. Firefighters contacted the American Red Cross and found the family of eight a place to stay until electricians could be contacted. Property damages were roughly estimated at around $2.5K.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	$1,000	Central Dispatch reported that several trees and powerlines were blown down in North Branch by thunderstorm winds.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	A tree was blown onto power line wires.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	Trees reported down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	Emergency Management reported multiple trees down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	Power lines were reported blown down along M-90.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines blown down.
April 1994	Hail	North Branch	-	Hail of 0.75-inch diameter fell in both Metamora and North branch. Thunderstorm winds gusts knocked down power lines in Imlay City.
April 2020	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	North Branch	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	North Branch	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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 82002846 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lapeer County	All 23 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.