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John Divine Law Office/Moore Public Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Moore Public Library is a library building located at 7239 Huron Avenue Lexington, Michigan. The building was formerly a professional office, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article Moore Public Library (Lexington, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Sanilac County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Divine, John, Law Office/Moore Public Library - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 7239 Huron Ave., Lexington, 48450
  • When was it listed? January 1985
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lexington township
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85000167 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of John Divine Law Office/Moore Public Library between 2018 and 2019, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

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
14 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROSWELL FD 2019067 - 2019
1 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEXINGTON FIRE/RESCUE 0000122 - 2018
13 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEXINGTON FIRE/RESCUE 0000332 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Sanilac 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 John Divine Law Office/Moore Public Library: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Port Huron Clay Prod Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 waterspout. 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLexington$4,000Numerous tree limbs and powerlines down in the area.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindLexington$3,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLexington-Trees reported blown down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLexington-Trees reported blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLexington-Trees were reported down.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLexington-A tree was reported blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLexington-Central dispatch reported several trees and power lines blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLexington-Local law enforcement reported a large tree blown down.
September 2001WaterspoutLexington-The waterspout was witnessed by boaters a quarter of a mile from the breakwall offshore of Lexington.
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
August 2011HailLexington-no account filed
June 2006HailLexington-no account filed
April 2003HailLexington-no account filed
September 2001HailLexington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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
Cadillac Houseunder 500 feet2018
Moore, Charles H./Sleeper, Albert E., House0.1 miles1985
William Reuben Nims House0.2 miles1985
John L. Fead House0.3 miles1978
W.R. Roach Cannery Warehouse and Office Building4.2 miles2005
Thomas and Margaret Spencer Matthews Farm4.8 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanilac CountyAll 10 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.