Fallasburg Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Fallasburg Historic District is a historic district containing the remaining portions of a nineteenth century hamlet surrounding the remains of a sawmill and gristmill. The district is located near the Fallasburg Bridge, where Covered Bridge Road crosses the Flat River in Vergennes Township, Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Fallasburg Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Covered Bridge Rd., Vergennes Township, 49331
When was it listed? March 1999
Category. district
Township. Vergennes township
National Register reference number. 98001217 - 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

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fallasburg Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 49 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
8 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 326 - 2018
7 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELDING FD 0000428 - 2019
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 292 - 2019
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 288 - 2019
27 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LOWELL AREA FD 339 - 2019
17 April 2015	Smoking	27 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IONIA 01
17 April 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Kent 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 Fallasburg Historic District: 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
	Pickett and Schreur Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Fallasburg Covered Bridge	0.2 miles	1972
Downtown Lowell Historic District	3.4 miles	1999
Graham House	3.4 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001217 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 57 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.