Booth-Dunham Estate

Built in 1840 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Booth-Dunham Estate is a single-family home located at 6059 South Ninth Street Texas Charter Township near Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Booth-Dunham Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 1998 · category: District · built in 1840, Greek Revival architecture.

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

The listing

Listed as. Booth--Dunham Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 6059 S. Ninth St., Texas Charter Township, 49009
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. district
Charter township. Texas charter township
When was it built? 1840
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98000271 - 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

35 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Booth-Dunham Estate between 2018 and 2020, burning about 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
17 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORTAGE FD 0004039 - 2018
15 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000733 - 2019
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORTAGE FD 0002972 - 2019
5 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1545 - 2018
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001310 - 2019
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KALAMAZOO DPS 0006282 - 2019
30 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORTAGE FD 0002877 - 2019
28 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORTAGE FD 0003242 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Booth-Dunham Estate: 1 producer. All of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bill Smith Kalamazoo County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo 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
Silas W. Kendall House	2.1 miles	1990
John Gibbs House	2.8 miles	1983
Parkwyn Village	3.3 miles	2022
Andrew J. Stevens House	3.5 miles	1983
Oshtemo Town Hall	4.2 miles	2004
Kalamazoo State Hospital Water Tower	4.8 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000271 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalamazoo County	All 60 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.