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Photograph of Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot
Photograph by Ian Poellet ( User:Werewombat ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Standish is a disused railroad depot located at 107 North Main Street in Standish, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot.”

Wikipedia article Standish station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Arenac County · listed in 1991 · 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.
  • Address. 107 N. Main St., Standish, 48658
  • When was it listed? February 1991
  • Category. building
  • City. Standish city
  • Architectural style. Richardsonian Romanesque
  • Architect. Spier & Rohns
  • National Register reference number. 91000215 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 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
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 06
23 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 04
11 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use17 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTERLING AREA FD 1419044 - 2019
16 June 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 05
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Arenac County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Michigan Central Railroad Standish Depot: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mk Perlberg Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac County

Storms near this property

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Standish, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStandish$30,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed in multiple locations in and just east of Standish. Power lines were also downed in and on the east side of Omer.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindStandish$10,000no account filed
June 2007FloodStandish$6,000Sterling Road was closed between Grove Street and US-23, due to substantial soil erosion in the roadbed. Water also inundated part of US-23 near Foco Road.
July 2010LightningStandish$500Lightning struck near the Arenac County Central Dispatch center. Radios and other equipment were temporarily disabled.
September 2022HailStandish-Half dollar sized hail called in from public source.
August 2001HailStandish-Scattered strong to severe storms developed along a cold front.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStandish-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines countywide.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStandish-The Arenac County Road Commission reported trees and branches blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
August 1993HailStandish-A spotter reported 0.75-inch hail 2 miles east of Standish.
July 2016HailStandish-no account filed
June 2006HailStandish-no account filed
May 2000HailStandish-no account filed
June 1998HailStandish-no account filed
May 1997HailStandish-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Arenac 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Second Arenac County Courthouse6.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arenac CountyAll 2 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.