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W.R. Roach Cannery Warehouse and Office Building

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Roach Cannery Warehouse and Office Building is an industrial structure located at 89 East Sanborn in Croswell, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and now contains apartments, known as Cannery Village.”

Wikipedia article W.R. Roach Cannery Warehouse and Office Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Sanilac County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1917.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Roach, W.R., Cannery Warehouse and Office Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 89 E. Sanborn, Croswell, 48422
  • When was it listed? July 2005
  • Category. building
  • City. Croswell city
  • When was it built? 1917
  • National Register reference number. 05000717 - 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of W.R. Roach Cannery Warehouse and Office Building between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROSWELL FD 2019096 - 2019
14 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROSWELL FD 2019067 - 2019
14 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROSWELL FD 2018089 - 2018
13 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEXINGTON FIRE/RESCUE 0000332 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Sanilac 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 W.R. Roach Cannery Warehouse and Office Building: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cook Block Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Huron Clay Prod Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Croswell, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCroswell$20,000Numerous trees and powerlines blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCroswell$15,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCroswell$5,000Power lines and power poles reported down.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindCroswell$2,000Numerous trees reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCroswell$1,000A tree was reported blown down on a house.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCroswell$500no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCroswell-Tree blown onto a house.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCroswell-A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCroswell-Three to four inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCroswell-Trees blown down.
August 2011HailCroswell-no account filed
June 2001HailCroswell-no account filed
October 1999HailCroswell-no account filed
April 1998HailCroswell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000717 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanilac CountyAll 10 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.