Homer Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Homer Village Historic District is a commercial and residential historic district roughly bounded by Leigh, Burgess, Hamilton, School, and Byron Streets in Homer, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Homer Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Leigh, Burgess, Hamilton, School, and Byron Sts., Homer, 49245
When was it listed? July 1996
Category. district
Township. Homer township
National Register reference number. 96000805 - 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 Homer Village Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 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	7

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
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOMER FD 169 - 2019
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOMER FD 70 - 2019
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOMER FD 63 - 2020
26 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOMER FD 79 - 2020
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALBION TOWNSHIP FD 0000018 - 2018
23 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOMER FD 45 - 2018
17 October 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALBION TOWNSHIP FD 0000056 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Homer Village Historic District: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cole Bros Contractors, Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Tekonsha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homer, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 1998: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Homer	$3,000	no account filed
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homer	$2,500	The Homer Index reported a large tree limb fell on a van parked at 810 S. Hillsdale Street in Homer. No one was injured.
June 1998	Hail	Homer	-	A local television station meteorologist reported nickel-sized hail in Homer at 10:45 pm EDT.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Homer	-	A local newspaper, the Homer Index, reported trees and power lines were downed across Homer Township in southeast Calhoun County. Power was out for up to 26 hours across portions of the township. Loss of power knocked out a pair of sewer system lift stations in Homer. Damage estimates were not available.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cortright-Van Patten Mill	0.3 miles	1979
Eugene P. Robertson House	7.3 miles	1988
Superior Street Commercial Historic District	7.5 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000805 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun County	All 50 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.