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Photograph of Michigan Condensed Milk Factory
Photograph by EC Kropp, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Michigan Condensed Milk Factory, also known as the Borden Creamery, is a factory building located at 320 West Broadway Street in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Michigan Condensed Milk Factory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Isabella 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. 320 W. Broadway St., Mount Pleasant, 48858
  • When was it listed? April 1983
  • Category. building
  • City. Mount Pleasant city
  • National Register reference number. 83000853 - 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

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Michigan Condensed Milk Factory between 2003 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000512 - 2019
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000580 - 2019
15 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-26 - 2020
13 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000543 - 2019
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREMONT TOWNSHIP FD 2020-22 - 2020
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000492 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000504 - 2019
18 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMT PLEASANT FD 0000465 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Isabella County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Michigan Condensed Milk Factory: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Wademans Clay PitClayPast Producer
Wing Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pleasant, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997HailMount Pleasant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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

4 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
Mount Pleasant Downtown Historic District0.3 miles2014
Doughty House0.4 miles1974
St. John's Episcopal Church0.4 miles1982
Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School1.1 miles

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000853 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Isabella CountyAll 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.