Clare Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Clare Downtown Historic District is a collection of 51 buildings located along four blocks of North McEwan Street in Clare, Michigan, along with adjacent portions of East and West Fourth Street and East and West Fifth Street. Street addresses of the structures run from 307 to 622 North McEwan, 114-120 East Fifth Street, 102-202 West Fifth Street, 112-115 East Fourth Street, and 112-124 West Fourth Street.”
Wikipedia article Clare Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Clare County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 114-120 E. Fifth St., 102-202 W. Fifth St., 112-115 E. Fourth St., 112-124 W. Fourth St., 307, 321-622 N. McEwan, Clare, 48617
When was it listed? April 2016
Category. district
City. Clare city
National Register reference number. 16000178 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Clare Downtown Historic District between 1996 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
15 August 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 July 2001	Fireworks	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 June 2016	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ISABELLA 03
7 May 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE FD 0000075 - 2018
5 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 13
25 May 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Clare County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Clare Downtown Historic District: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clare Prtlnd Cmnt Co Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
McKenna Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Russell Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hubscher and Sons Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Loomis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shively Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clare County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clare, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 1998	Tornado (F0)	Clare	$200,000	Tornado continued into Clare County then lifted and moved ne
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Clare	$75,000	A large tree fell on several parked cars.
June 2003	Hail	Clare	$30,000	A report of one inch diameter hail was received from Clare.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clare	$25,000	A tree was blown down onto a house in Clare.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Clare	$10,000	A 60 mile per hour wind gust was reported and some trees were downed.
June 2006	Hail	Clare	$5,000	Three quarters inch hail was reported by amateur radio operators in Clare.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Clare	$5,000	Clare County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines downed in and around the city of Clare at 2:00 PM EDT.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Clare	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a few large trees up to one foot in diameter just east of U.S. 27, causing minimal structural damage to a mobile home.
July 2012	Hail	Clare	-	Three quarters inch hail was reported in Clare.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clare	-	A tree was blown down and split a roof that it fell onto.
April 2002	Hail	Clare	-	no account filed
February 1997	Flash Flood	Clare	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Clare	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Clare	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clare 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Clare Congregational Church	under 500 feet	1994
	George and Martha Hitchcock House	4.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000178 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clare County	All 3 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.