Muir Church of Christ

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Muir Church of Christ, also known as the First Christian Church of Muir, is a historic church located at 138 Garden Street in Muir, Michigan, United States. It was built in 1861 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Muir Church of Christ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Ionia County · listed in 1983 · 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. 138 Garden St., Muir, 48860
When was it listed? February 1983
Category. building
Township. Lyons township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 83000852 - 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

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Muir Church of Christ between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
15 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IONIA DPS 0000130 - 2018
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LYONS-MUIR FD 0442019 - 2019
15 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LYONS-MUIR FD 0472019 - 2019
24 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IONIA DPS 0000173 - 2019
10 March 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IONIA DPS 0000045 - 2018
20 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LYONS-MUIR FD 1252020 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Ionia 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 Muir Church of Christ: 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
	Cole Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muir, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Flood	Muir	$100,000	Numerous roads were closed due to flooding in and near Ionia.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Muir	$10,000	The public reported that several trees were blown down in and near Muir.
September 2006	Tornado (F0)	Muir	$10,000	An F0 tornado touched down very briefly, producing top winds estimated at only 40 to 50 m.p.h. and no reports of any significant damage or any injuries.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Muir	$5,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Muir	$4,000	no account filed
March 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Muir	-	Minor property damage and tree damage occurred along this brief tornado path.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
John C. Blanchard House	6.0 miles	1974
Ionia Historic District	6.1 miles	1984
Hall-Fowler Memorial Library	6.2 miles	1971
Ionia County Courthouse	6.3 miles	1979
Lovell-Webber House	6.3 miles	1974
Ionia Downtown Commercial Historic District	6.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000852 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ionia County	All 16 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.