Millington Bank Building

Built in 1897 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Millington Bank Building is a commercial building located at 8534 State Street in Millington, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Millington Bank Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tuscola County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1897, Romanesque Revival 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8534 State St., Millington, 48746
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. building
Township. Millington township
When was it built? 1897
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 95001387 - 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Millington Bank Building between 2018 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1

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
5 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000180 - 2018
4 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000172 - 2018
4 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VASSAR FD 0732018 - 2018
1 May 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000164 - 2018
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VASSAR FD 0562018 - 2018
22 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000141 - 2019
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILLINGTON-ARBELA TWP FD 0000147 - 2018
10 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VASSAR FD 0462018 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Millington Bank Building: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Baxter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Genesee County Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kaestor Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sargent Sand Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sargent Sand Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sargent Sand Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sargent Sand Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stillman Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millington, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
October 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Millington	1 hurt, $500,000	This tornado touched down at 0016EST, just southwest of the town of Millington, near the intersection of Barnes and Fulmer roads. It tracked northeastward and was on the ground for 2 miles before lifting near Main street and Caine Road in Millington. This tornado was rated a strong EF1 with winds estimated around 105 mph. A modular home was completely destroyed, another home received substantial damage after being battered by debris from the destroyed modular home and a framed house lost a section of its roof. Miraculously, a 14-month-old baby, sleeping in a crib in the modular home, received only minor cuts and bruises after being tossed 25 feet and buried under about 4 feet of beams, rafters, and other debris from the demolished home. Total property damages were estimated at $500K. The average path width was 30 yards.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	$15,000	Numerous trees and power lines down in and around Millington.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	$10,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	$10,000	no account filed
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	$5,000	Trees and tree limbs blown onto power lines.
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Millington	$5,000	A tornado touched down 1 mile west of Fostoria. Numerous trees were blown down. Two homes also sustained roof damage.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	$4,000	Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	-	Numerous trees and power lines down near Millington, as well as large tree uprooted.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	-	A large tree was blown down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	-	Several small trees were reported blown down.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	-	Trained spotters reported several large tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds.
June 2006	Hail	Millington	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Millington	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Millington	-	no account filed
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Millington	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Millington	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Millington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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

4 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
McKinley School	6.5 miles	1972
Hotel Columbia	6.8 miles	1992
Smith House	6.9 miles	1972
Townsend North House	6.9 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuscola County	All 14 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.