Rock S. Edwards Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Edwards Farmstead is a collection of farm buildings located at 3503 Edwards Road in Sodus Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Rock S. Edwards Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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 14 buildingss, 12 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Edwards, Rock S., Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3503 Edwards Rd., Sodus Township, Sodus, 49126
When was it listed? July 1995
Category. district
Township. Sodus township
National Register reference number. 95000868 - 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Rock S. Edwards Farmstead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5

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
6 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 82 - 2020
5 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 81 - 2020
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000409 - 2019
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000339 - 2019
27 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 170 - 2019
5 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000221 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sodus, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sodus	-	Power lines down.

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Shiloh House	4.5 miles	1972
Mary's City of David	4.7 miles	2009
Eden Springs Park	4.8 miles	2023
Wendell P. and Harriet Rounds Robbins House	5.1 miles	2007
Fidelity Building	5.9 miles	2002
Blossomland Bridge	6.8 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000868 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berrien County	All 32 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.
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.