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Photograph of River Ledge Historic District
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River Ledge Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The River Ledge Historic District is a primarily residential historic district located along Jefferson, Scott, and Lincoln Streets between Franklin and Maple Streets in Grand Ledge, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”

Wikipedia article River Ledge Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Eaton County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

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 River Ledge Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. None 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 use7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002379 - 2019
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1827002 - 2018
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1827004 - 2018
1 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1826672 - 2018
28 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 199847 - 2019
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND LEDGE FD 0002191 - 2018
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1825682 - 2018
5 May 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 198791 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of River Ledge Historic District: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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
Pryor Brothers PitQuartzPast Producer
Harman Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pryor Brothers, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
American Sewer Pipe Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Briggs Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Grand Ledge Clay Prod Co Shale PitClayPast Producer
Lawson Clay PitClayProducer
Lawson Road MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Ledge, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$50,000no account filed
May 2000HailGrand Ledge$40,000no account filed
June 2005HailGrand Ledge$25,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by a spotter seven miles west of Lansing.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$15,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across the county.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$15,000no account filed
April 2023HailGrand Ledge$10,000Law enforcement reported one inch diameter hail near Grand Ledge.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$10,000Law enforcement reported that a couple of trees were blown down in Grand Ledge.
August 2003HailGrand Ledge$10,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported three miles southeast of Grand Ledge.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$10,000Law enforcement reported that several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts in Grand Ledge. One inch hail was reported by a spotter in Potterville.
June 2005HailGrand Ledge$10,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$3,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$2,500One large tree downed, pulling down power lines, in Grand Ledge.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$500A trained weather spotter reported small trees were downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Nearby in Charlotte, amateur radio operators reported 40 to 50 mph wind gusts with this thunderstorm.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge$500no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGrand Ledge-Several large trees down in the Grand Ledge area.
April 2008HailGrand Ledge-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodGrand Ledge-no account filed
July 1997HailGrand Ledge-no account filed
May 1997HailGrand Ledge-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodGrand Ledge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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

2 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001576 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eaton CountyAll 18 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.