Whitcomb Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 509 Ship St., Saint Joseph, 49085
When was it listed? November 2021
Category. building
City. St. Joseph city
National Register reference number. 100007206 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Whitcomb Hotel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 13 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
27 September 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOSEPH FD 228 - 2020
1 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOSEPH CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 2019068 - 2019
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOSEPH FD 159 - 2019
7 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019
22 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 293 - 2020
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019
14 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST JOSEPH FD 166 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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 Whitcomb Hotel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
	Saint Joseph Terminal Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Blossomland Bridge	0.2 miles	1999
St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights	0.6 miles	2005
Fidelity Building	1.4 miles	2002
Wendell P. and Harriet Rounds Robbins House	2.0 miles	2007
Eden Springs Park	2.5 miles	2023
Shiloh House	2.6 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007206 in Record Group 79.
Berrien County	All 32 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.