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Photograph of Smith's Chapel
Photograph by Michael Tomko, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Smith's Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Smith's Chapel, also known as Smith Chapel, is a historic chapel located at 29858 Redfield Road in Milton Township, Cass County, Michigan, near Niles. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”

Wikipedia article Smith's Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Cass 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Redfield Rd. between Brush & Fir Rds., Niles, 49120
  • When was it listed? December 1987
  • Category. building
  • Township. Milton township
  • National Register reference number. 87002224 - 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Smith's Chapel between 2018 and 2019, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
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
17 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018156 - 2018
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNILES FD 2190310 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 178 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWARD TOWNSHIP VFD 2019102 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 149 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEDWARDSBURG FD 0000055 - 2019
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018088 - 2018
24 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEDWARDSBURG FD 0000053 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Smith's Chapel: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A&K Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bret Schneider Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indiana Highways MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indiana Highways Materials, IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Millikin Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cass 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cass CountyAll 9 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.