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One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Vicksburg Union Depot
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 300 North Richardson Street, Vicksburg, 49097
- When was it listed? April 2024
- Category. building
- Township. Schoolcraft township
- National Register reference number. 100010197 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
14 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Vicksburg Union Depot between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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 | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000617 - 2018 |
| 12 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000273 - 2019 |
| 16 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000560 - 2018 |
| 3 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000279 - 2019 |
| 26 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000348 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PAVILION TOWNSHIP FD 0000138 - 2018 |
| 24 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORTAGE FD 0001678 - 2019 |
| 22 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH KALAMAZOO COUNTY FIRE AUTH 0000331 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vicksburg Union Depot: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayward Dry Marl Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vicksburg, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Flood | Vicksburg | $100,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Vicksburg | $100,000 | One inch diameter hail was reported in Vicksburg, in addition to estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 m.p.h. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $50,000 | A few trees were blown down near Vicksburg. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Vicksburg | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, and roofs were blown off several houses. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, and roofs were blown off several houses. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Vicksburg | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Vicksburg | $25,000 | The public in Vicksburg reported golf ball sized hail covered the ground with hail measured as large as two and a quarter inches in diameter. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Vicksburg | $25,000 | The public in Vicksburg reported hail as large as two and a quarter inches in diameter and hail briefly covered the ground. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $25,000 | Several trees were blown down three miles northeast of Vicksburg. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $20,000 | Nine trees were blown down in the Vicksburg area. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Vicksburg | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $15,000 | A 68 mph wind gust was measured at Kalamazoo airport and a street sign and several large healthy trees were blown down. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Vicksburg | $15,000 | Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported in Vicksburg where it briefly covered the ground. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Vicksburg | $15,000 | A report of one inch diameter hail was received from three miles east of Vicksburg. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $10,000 | The public reported that six trees were blown down five miles east of Vicksburg. |
| March 2003 | Hail | Vicksburg | $10,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced three quarters inch hail in Vicksburg. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $10,000 | A 60 m.p.h. wind gust was reported in Vicksburg. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $5,000 | An isolated severe storm brought down several large trees in Vicksburg in southern Kalamazoo county. A funnel cloud was also reported but there were no tornados. One and a quarter inch diameter hail was also reported near Vicksburg. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $5,000 | Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department reported a couple of trees were downed in Vicksburg. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | $2,500 | Trees downed along V-Avenue, just east of Vicksburg in Brady Township. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Vicksburg | - | A trained spotter reported one inch diameter hail near Vicksburg. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Vicksburg | - | Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Vicksburg | - | One inch diameter hail was reported in Vicksburg. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | - | pulse storm produced bow echo across extreme southern Michigan and northern Indiana |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | - | Amateur radio operators reported an estimated 65-mph wind gust in Vicksburg, which downed up to 10 trees. Two 24" diameter trees were snapped of 8 feet above the ground and landed on a bowling alley. A damage estimate was not available. This severe thunderstorm downed trees and power lines scattered across Kalamazoo County, which resulted in power outages for approximately 26,000 customers of Consumers Energy. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vicksburg | - | Power lines and trees down around Vine and Pearl Streets. A damage estimate was not available. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Vicksburg Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2022 |
 | Lee Paper Company Mill Complex | 0.7 miles | 2016 |
 | Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House | 5.2 miles | 1982 |
 | Fanckboner-Nichols Farmstead | 7.0 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010197 in Record Group 79. |
| Kalamazoo County | All 60 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.