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Photograph of Ithaca Downtown Historic District
Photograph by H. G. Zimmerman & Co, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ithaca Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Ithaca Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located on East Center Street, between Main and Pine River, in Ithaca, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”

Wikipedia article Ithaca Downtown Historic District (Ithaca, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Gratiot County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 15 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 100-168 and 101-161 E. Center St., Ithaca, 48847
  • When was it listed? December 2005
  • Category. district
  • City. Ithaca city
  • National Register reference number. 05001510 - 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 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ithaca Downtown Historic District in 2019, burning about 13 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/undetermined5
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000246 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000147 - 2019
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000161 - 2019
26 April 2019Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000160 - 2019
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000138 - 2019
7 February 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000056 - 2019
13 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesITHACA FD 0000444 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Gratiot 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 Ithaca Downtown Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
J O Thomas Clay PitClayPast Producer
Kennet Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ithaca, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2020FloodIthaca$100,000Over a dozen roads were closed countywide due to water over roads. The Pine River went over flood stage and impacted roads in Alma.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Ithaca$25,000A F0 tornado producing maximum estimated wind speeds to 60 m.p.h. touched down just north of Pierce road, and moved north through downtown Ithaca, ending north of St. Charles street. The tornado had a path length of 2.5 miles and a width of 50 yards. The only damage observed was to trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindIthaca$20,000Several large trees and power lines downed in Ithaca and scattered reports of the same across Gratiot County.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIthaca$20,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindIthaca$15,000An emergency manager three miles east of Ithaca reported that several trees and limbs as well as power lines were blown down.
June 2004HailIthaca$10,000Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported three miles south of Ithaca.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindIthaca$10,000Power lines and trees were downed in Ithaca.
June 2005HailIthaca$10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIthaca$10,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindIthaca$8,000Four trees were blown down countywide.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindIthaca$5,000A sign at a car wash was destroyed.
June 2004HailIthaca$5,000Trained spotters one to two miles north and northeast of Ithaca reported three quarters to seven eighths inch diameter hail.
August 2003HailIthaca$5,000Three quarters inch hail was reported six miles north of the town of Ithaca.
February 1997Flash FloodIthaca-no account filed
July 1997HailIthaca-no account filed
August 1996HailIthaca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gratiot County Courthouse0.1 miles1976
Alma Downtown Historic District6.7 miles2013
Wright Opera house Block Complex6.8 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001510 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gratiot CountyAll 6 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.