Jared H. Gay House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Gay House is a log house located Route 2, 128th Avenue, in Crystal Valley, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”
Wikipedia article Jared H. Gay House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Oceana County · listed in 1989 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Gay, Jared H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Rt. 2, 128th Ave., Crystal Valley, 49420
When was it listed? January 1989
Category. building
Township. Crystal township
National Register reference number. 88003235 - 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Jared H. Gay House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 August 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 98 - 2020
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	BARBERRY
8 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 07
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 03
4 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 50 - 2019
4 May 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Oceana 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	US 31-Pentwater River Bridge	7.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88003235 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oceana County	All 6 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.