Massie Variety Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Massie Variety Store is a historic commercial building located at 110 South Main Street in New Canton, Illinois. John Webb built the two-story brick Italianate building between 1848 and 1850 as a mercantile store.”
Wikipedia article Massie Variety Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 2004 · 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.
Address. 110 S. Main St., New Canton, 62356
When was it listed? August 2004
Category. building
Township. Pleasant Vale township
National Register reference number. 04000864 - 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Massie Variety Store between 2008 and 2009, burning about 6 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	4284
4 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	901970
18 March 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	HARPOLE
16 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	HOSKINS
15 March 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	LAGOON
6 November 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	9566
19 October 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	LEVEE

Every fire recorded in Pike 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 Massie Variety Store: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 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
	Barry Plant No. 8, Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	Kiser Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Canton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 8 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
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines around town.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, tree limbs, power poles and power lines around town.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees along Illinois Route 96 between New Canton and Rockport. One of the trees landed on a house causing moderate damage.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	A tree was blown down across a road in town.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	Several large trees, numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down in town. One tree caused roof damage to one home.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	Local law enforcement reported trees down.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	The County Sheriff reported numerous trees and power lines down.
July 2008	Hail	New Canton	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New Canton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
	Barry Historic District	4.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000864 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike County	All 11 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.