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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tuscola County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Moore, William J. and Lovila (Wooley), House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 structuress, 2 buildingss, 2 sitess, 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 123 North Almer Street, Caro, 48723
- When was it listed? March 2024
- Category. building
- City. Caro city
- National Register reference number. 100010162 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Moore, William J. and Lovila (Wooley), House between 1996 and 2019, burning about 10 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 | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CARO FD 0000153 - 2018 |
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019 |
| 3 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CARO FD 0000134 - 2018 |
| 11 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0002518 - 2018 |
| 19 May 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CARO FD 0000068 - 2018 |
| 7 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRGROVE FD 0001419 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CARO FD 0000074 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Moore, William J. and Lovila (Wooley), House: 5 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peterhans Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Smith Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tuscola County Road Commission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tuscola County Road Commission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Tuscola County Road Commission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
40 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caro, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Hail | Caro | $500,000 | A severe thunderstorm moved southeast across Tuscola County on the 6th, dropping large hail over the communities of Fairgrove and Caro. In Caro, a car dealership suffered damages in excess of $100,000 to their stock of both used and new cars. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $30,000 | Numerous trees reported down. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $15,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Flood | Caro | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $5,000 | Trees and power lines reported down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $5,000 | Numerous tree limbs and trees reported down, along with damaged windows. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $2,000 | Numerous large limbs were downed. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Tree blown down onto a mobile home. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Trees reported down. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Large tree and wires reported down. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Numerous trees and power lines reported down across the county. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Trees reported down. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Six trees were reported blown down, along with wires. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Trees reported down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Four inch diameter tree limbs reported down. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Law enforcement reported a tree blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Large tree limbs were reported blown down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Large tree limbs were reported blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Several large tree limbs and wires were reported down by the emergency manager. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Emergency management reported large trees blown down in thunderstorm winds. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines on the northeast side of Caro. In Reese, several large limbs were snapped off of trees. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Caro | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Caro | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hotel Montague | 0.1 miles | 1991 |
 | Trinity Episcopal Church | 0.2 miles | 1975 |
 | Tuscola County Courthouse | 0.2 miles | 1996 |
 | Watrous General Store | 6.9 miles | 1974 |
 | R. C. Burtis House | 6.9 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010162 in Record Group 79. |
| Tuscola County | All 14 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.