Photograph of Sunfield G. A. R. Hall — Photograph by kennethaw88, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sunfield Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 283 Hall

Built in 1899 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Hall, also known as the Sunfield Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 283 Hall, is a hall built for the Grand Army of the Republic fraternal organization, located at 115 Main Street in Sunfield, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Sunfield G. A. R. Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Eaton County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1899, Victorian architecture.

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 5 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 115 Main St., Sunfield, 48890
When was it listed? October 1992
Category. building
Township. Sunfield township
When was it built? 1899
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 92001502 - 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sunfield Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 283 Hall between 2018 and 2019, burning about 12 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/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2019191 - 2019
3 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2019080 - 2019
3 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2019079 - 2019
28 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2019106 - 2019
11 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2018093 - 2018
26 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2019069 - 2019
17 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUNFIELD FD 2018071 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sunfield Grand Army of the Republic Post No. 283 Hall: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lawson Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Grumfield Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ionia Co. Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Smith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunfield, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2023	Hail	Sunfield	$50,000	A trained spotter near Sunfield reported hail over an inch in diameter.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunfield	$7,500	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Sunfield	-	An amateur radio operator reported three quarters inch hail in Sunfield.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunfield	-	An emergency manager from Eaton county reported that a Silo was toppled.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001502 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eaton County	All 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.