Courthouse Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Courthouse Square Historic District is a commercial and residential historic district, roughly bounded by Park, East Columbia, Rodgers and South Streets, in Mason, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Courthouse Square Historic District (Mason, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Ingham County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by Park, E. Columbia, Rodgers and South, Mason, 48854
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. district
Also known as. Mason Michigan Historic MRA
City. Mason city
National Register reference number. 85001243 - 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

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Courthouse Square Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	2

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
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 159 - 2019
29 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 157 - 2019
3 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 131 - 2020
17 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DELHI TOWNSHIP FD 1866 - 2019
12 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 142 - 2020
11 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 141 - 2020
4 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 96 - 2020
24 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON FD 133 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Ingham County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Courthouse Square Historic District: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Capitol Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Couch Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Snider Farms Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sniders No 1 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tomlinson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weaver Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ingham County

Storms near this property

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mason, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$25,000	Law enforcement reported that a severe thunderstorm blew down numerous trees and powerlines mainly just east of US-127.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$25,000	Several trees were blown down in Mason.
June 2005	Hail	Mason	$25,000	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$20,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Mason	$15,000	Three quarters to one inch diameter hail was reported near Mason.
April 2006	Hail	Mason	$10,000	Law enforcement eight miles east of Mason reported one inch diameter hail.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$10,000	A 58 m.p.h. wind gust was measured by an AWOS site in Mason.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds tore a roof from an unoccupied office trailer at the county fairgrounds south of the city. A wind gust over 50 mph was measured at Mason-Jewett Airport (1.3 miles southeast of Mason).
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$2,500	Ingham County Central Dispatch reported several trees downed around Mason.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	$2,000	Several tree limbs were blown down near Mason.
September 2022	Hail	Mason	-	Hail up to two inches in diameter was reported.
May 2013	Hail	Mason	-	Three quarters inch hail was reported by an amateur radio operator near Mason.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	-	Scattered downed trees and power outages were reported across much of Ingham county.
May 2012	Hail	Mason	-	A trained spotter measured hail up to an inch and a quarter in diameter in Mason.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	-	A 60 mph wind gust was recorded at the Lansing Capital City Airport.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	-	Wind damage and power outages reported by spotter.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	-	60 mph wind gust reported by Skywarn spotter.
April 1998	Hail	Mason	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Mason	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Mason	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Mason	-	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Mason	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ingham 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
Ingham County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1971
Ash Street-Sycamore Creek Bridge	0.3 miles	2000
Westside Neighborhood Historic District	0.4 miles	1985
Maple Grove Cemetery	0.4 miles	1985
Philip Nice House	0.4 miles	1985
Michigan Central Railroad Mason Depot	0.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001243 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ingham County	All 55 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.