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John Carveth House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The John Carveth House, also known as the Aaron Clark House or the Lone Willow Farm, is a private house located at 614 West Main Street in Middleville, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1992 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”

Wikipedia article John Carveth House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Barry County · listed in 1992 · 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 3 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Carveth, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 614 W. Main St., Middleville, 49333
  • When was it listed? August 1992
  • Category. building
  • Township. Thornapple township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 92001076 - 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of John Carveth House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
21 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEIGHTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000110 - 2019
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHASTINGS FD 0000430 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 06 - PAYNE LAKE RD.
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor4.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARRY 02
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALEDONIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 648 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 John Carveth House: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Currie and Duncan Lake MarlLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Barry Co Pit Yerington ConstSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Barry Co Road Comm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bohn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cole Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middleville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
April 2013FloodMiddleville$5,000,000Significant flooding occurred on rivers and streams across Barry county due to heavy rainfall and antecedent high river levels and saturated grounds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$100,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across Barry county.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$50,000Barry County Central Dispatch reported several large trees and power lines downed across the Middleville and Yankee Springs area of northwest Barry County. Many trees fell across roads, creating hazardous driving conditions for motorists. One Middleville home, at 3240 N. Yankee Springs Road (Highway M-37), sustained damage from 2 trees downed in the front yard. The downed trees damaged the resident's garage, front picture window, and roof.
July 2003HailMiddleville$40,000Numerous reports of hail were received from Middleville, including one report of one inch diameter hail 3.5 miles south Middleville off M-37.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$25,000Several trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$25,000A pole barn was blown off it's foundation and numerous trees were blown down just southeast of Middleville.
August 2003HailMiddleville$15,000One inch diameter hail was reported in Middleville.
May 2004HailMiddleville$10,000The public reported three quarters inch diameter hail in Middleville.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$10,000Wind damage was reported and some power lines were downed by strong winds.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$10,000Trees and power lines downed in Middleville.
September 2003HailMiddleville$5,000Three quarters inch hail was reported with an isolated severe thunderstorm two miles south of Middleville.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$2,500Barry County Central Dispatch reported trees downed near the intersection of 108th and Whitneyville Road, 3 miles north of Middleville in Thornapple Township.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMiddleville$2,000A large tree limb was blown down onto power lines that were also downed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMiddleville-Trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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

3 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 92001076 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barry 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.
  • 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.