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Joy House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Joy House, also known as the Benedict-Joy House, is a single-family home located at 224 North Kalamazoo Avenue in Marshall, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”

Wikipedia article Joy House (Marshall, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 224 N. Kalamazoo Ave., Marshall, 49068
  • When was it listed? April 1972
  • Category. building
  • City. Marshall city
  • National Register reference number. 72000599 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

38 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Joy House between 2004 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural4
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 106 - 2019
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 281 - 2019
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2019
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 216 - 2020
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 215 - 2020
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 217 - 2020
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 182 - 2020
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 181 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Joy House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Yerington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2024Tornado (EF1)Marshall$1,000,000A tornado touched down near sixteen and a quarter mile road and moved east northeast and uprooted or snapped hundreds of trees along its path. The tornado heavily damaged a few outbuildings and caused roof damage to a number of homes with shingles ripped off and tore away siding. The tornado ended southwest of twenty one and a half mile road and L drive north. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
July 2010Flash FloodMarshall$50,000A Calhoun county official reported that several roads were flooded particularly near Marshall where water approached some area homes before receding. A co-op observer reported total rainfall of 3.5 inches on old route 27 between Marshall and Tekonsha.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMarshall$50,000no account filed
July 2003HailMarshall$40,000One and one half inch diameter hail was reported five miles north of Marshall.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMarshall$25,000Large foot and a half diameter tree limbs were blown down onto a house in Marshall.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMarshall$25,000An emergency manager reported that numerous trees were blown down in Marshall.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMarshall$25,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts blew down numerous trees and power lines, some of which landed on roads, across the southern portion of Calhoun county from Ceresco to Homer.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall$20,000An emergency manager reported trees down and a tree blown down onto a house one mile west of Marshall.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall$20,000Several large trees were blown down in Marshall.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall$15,000Several trees were blown down in Marshall and five miles northeast of Pennfield.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMarshall$15,000Law enforcement seven miles northwest of Marshall reported that numerous trees were blown down at the intersection of N Drive and 13 Mile Road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarshall$15,000Two eight inch diameter trees were blown down in Marshall, multiple trees were blown down across a road in Albion township, and numerous trees were blown down in Tekonsha.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000A trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust of around 65 m.p.h. five miles southwest of Marshall.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000Several power lines were blown down on Michigan Avenue.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000A few trees and power lines were blown down in Marshall.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000A 60 m.p.h. thunderstorm wind gust was reported in Marshall.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMarshall$10,000A report from Marshall indicated that several trees were blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMarshall$3,000Two trees were blown down east southeast of Marshall which blocked roads in that area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall$2,500Trees downed along N Drive N. just east of Old U.S. 27 in Lee Township, approximately 5 miles north of Marshall.
March 2012HailMarshall-An emergency manager reported three quarters inch diameter hail just northwest of Marshall.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-Several trees were blown down at 17 1/2 Mile road and G avenue.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-A semi truck was blown over on Interstate 94 at mile marker 110.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarshall-A power pole was snapped and trees were blown down at 18 1/2 Mile road and G Avenue.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMarshall-The Battle Creek Enquirer reported tree damage on a house in the 500 block of North Marshall Street. A large tree fell down and punched a hole in the roof of the home's front porch. No one was injured. A damage estimate was not available.
April 1994HailMarshall-Hail covering the ground near Marshall was reported by county law enforcement.
July 1997HailMarshall-no account filed
July 1997HailMarshall-no account filed
April 1996HailMarshall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Harold C. Brooks Houseunder 500 feet1970
Stonehallunder 500 feet1972
Harold C. Brooks Houseunder 500 feet1970
Harold C. Brooks House (Boundary Increase)under 500 feet1984
Honolulu Houseunder 500 feet1970
National House0.1 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000599 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun CountyAll 50 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.