Fife Lake-Union District No. 1 Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Fife Lake-Union District No. 1 Schoolhouse, also known as the Cedar Creek School of the Union Township Hall, is a school building located at 5020 Fife Lake Road near Fife Lake, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Fife Lake-Union District No. 1 Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Grand Traverse County · listed in 1987 · 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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fife Lake--Union District No. 1 Schoolhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5020 Fife Lake Rd., Fife Lake, 49633
When was it listed? August 1987
Category. building
Township. Union township
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 87001433 - 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Fife Lake-Union District No. 1 Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 263 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 were 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BOARDMAN TOWNSHIP FD 0020952 - 2019
21 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 0002
16 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 09
20 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 07
1 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2005	Natural	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fife Lake, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Fife Lake	$15,000	Numerous trees were downed, one roof had shingles removed, and an awning was ripped off of a camper trailer.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fife Lake	$7,000	Trees were uprooted along US-131 near Fife Lake, as well as in a yard in the community.
April 2024	Hail	Fife Lake	-	Quarter sized hail at the intersection of M-113 and M-186. Time estimated by radar.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fife Lake	-	Numerous trees down.
August 2015	Hail	Fife Lake	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Fife Lake	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Fife Lake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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 87001433 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand Traverse County	All 12 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.
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.