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Photograph of Coe House
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Vinkle, Henry and Aurora (Walker), House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Coe House, also known as the Henry and Aurora (Walker) Vinkle House, is a museum and former single family home located at 371 West Michigan Avenue in Grass Lake, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.”

Wikipedia article Coe House (Grass Lake, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 371 W. Michigan Ave., Grass Lake, 49240
  • When was it listed? July 2017
  • Category. building
  • Charter township. Grass Lake charter township
  • National Register reference number. 100001391 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Vinkle, Henry and Aurora (Walker), House between 1996 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 0000177 - 2018
14 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 13678 - 2019
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 13234 - 2018
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 106 - 2020
8 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 6215 - 2018
5 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHELSEA AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 190477 - 2019
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRASS LAKE FD 78 - 2020
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 7567 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Vinkle, Henry and Aurora (Walker), House: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mellen Camp Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grass Lake, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2005: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2005HailGrass Lake$15,000The public reported one and three quarters inch diameter hail in Grass Lake.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindGrass Lake$5,000Jackson County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines were downed across Grass Lake Township.
June 1998HailGrass Lake-Jackson County Emergency Management reported golf ball-sized hail on Morrisey Road in Grass Lake Township, 2 miles north of the city of Grass Lake.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindGrass Lake-60 MPH wind and tree damage reported by amateur radio operators.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Grass Lake Public School0.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001391 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson CountyAll 29 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.