Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Haven Coal Tipple
Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
From the record
“The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Haven Coal Tipple is a coaling tower designed to feed coal to steam locomotives located on the 300 block of North Harbor Drive in Grand Haven, Michigan. It is the tallest structure in the city.”
Wikipedia article Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Haven Coal Tipple, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 2016 · category: Structure · built in 1925.
National Register reference number. 16000583 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
23 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Haven Coal Tipple
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Recreation and ceremony
2
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Haven Coal Tipple: 5 producers, 3 past producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grand Haven, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 3 deaths and 20 injuries. 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.
Michigan State Police EMD's Damage and Injury Assessment Report indicated $4,195,604 in public damage costs, 17 homes destroyed, 827 homes damaged, 8 businesses destroyed, and 129 businesses damaged. Total private damage costs were estimated at $25.0 Million in the city of Grand Haven and Grand Haven Township, $5.1 Million in the village of Spring Lake, $130,000 in Park Township, $182,900 in the city of Zeeland, and approximately $20,000 in Holland. Damage and losses were concentrated in the city of Grand Haven, the village of Spring Lake, and the townships of Grand Haven (northern portion), Spring Lake, Crockery, Polkton, Wright, Park, Holland Charter, Zeeland, and Jamestown. Private damage costs were not available from other cities and townships within the county. The Mill Point Condominiums along the Grand River in Spring Lake sustained major damage and approximately 50% of the units were destroyed. Numerous campers, trailers, and RV's were overturned at Grand Haven State Park along the Lake Michigan shoreline. One fatality was reported. A male utility worker (age not reported) was killed while attempting to repair storm-damaged electrical lines. Twenty injuries occurred. Crop damage was estimated at around $10.0 Million in the fruit belt (to apple, cherry, and peach trees) in the northern part of the county. Severe tree damage occurred in Grand Haven State Park. Ottawa County declared a local state of emergency and was granted a Governor's disaster declaration to activate state assistance for the county. A Michigan National Guard team was deployed to the village of Spring Lake to assist the local jurisdiction with debris removal and cleanup operations.On June 24th, President Clinton granted a Major Disaster Declaration for Ottawa County, making federal disaster assistance available.
A large tree fell on a home in Grand Haven and killed a 72 year old man. An 88 mph measured wind gust was recorded at Grand Valley State University in Allendale. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Ottawa county.
Scattered trees were snapped and uprooted across the extreme northern part of Ottawa county. MLive reported heavy damage to an apple orchard just northwest of Conklin.
Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across the Tri-Cities (Grand Haven, Ferrysburg, and Spring Lake) area. A few trees were downed onto power lines in the area of Savidge and Fruitport Road in Spring Lake and lightning sparked a few minor house fires. The Grand Haven Board of Light and Power reported scattered power outages. Heavy downpours brought 2 to 4 inches of rain to much of northern Ottawa County, which resulted in minor street flooding.
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.
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.
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