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Photograph of Eggleston School
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Eggleston School

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Eggleston School is former school and current private residential structure located at the 10539 Nolan Road in rural Nester Township in southeastern Roscommon County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on February 29, 1996, and soon after added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 4, 1996.”

Wikipedia article Eggleston School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Roscommon County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1934.

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. 10539 Nolan, Gladwin, 48624
  • When was it listed? April 1996
  • Category. building
  • Township. Nester township
  • When was it built? 1934
  • National Register reference number. 96000368 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Eggleston School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 1992Recreation and ceremony10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 1992Recreation and ceremony20 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution7.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 01
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 02 - DOUBLE EAGLE

Every fire recorded in Roscommon 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000368 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Roscommon CountyAll 1 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.