Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Hartwick Memorial Building is a museum building located on Hartwick Pines Road in Grayling Charter Township, Michigan, in the Hartwick Pines State Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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.
Listed as. Hartwick, Edward E., Memorial Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Hartwick Pines Rd., Grayling Township, 49738
When was it listed? October 1998
Category. building
Charter township. Grayling charter township
National Register reference number. 98001216 - 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,455 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Natural	2

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
8 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	115 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD 08 - NORTH FOB
3 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CRAWFORD - BLAAUW
17 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
	Jack Milliken Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Crawford 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	M-27-Au Sable River Bridge	6.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001216 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford County	All 3 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.