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Hance House

Built in 1884 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Hance House is a private house located at 217 Yale Street in Olivet, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”

Wikipedia article Hance House (Olivet, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Eaton County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1884, Victorian architecture.

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. 217 Yale St., Olivet, 49076
  • When was it listed? August 1972
  • Category. building
  • Township. Walton township
  • When was it built? 1884
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 72000609 - 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Hance House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined5
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
12 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 171 - 2019
28 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 019-172 - 2019
13 May 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 020-128 - 2020
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVET FD 0000105 - 2018
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVUE FD 019-128 - 2019
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVET FD 0000070 - 2019
14 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVET FD 0000076 - 2019
30 March 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLOTTE FD 0000183 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hance House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olivet Brick&Tile Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Pit No. 3 & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 3 and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rieth - Riley Construction CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Eaton County

Storms near this property

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olivet, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 1997Thunderstorm WindOlivet$5,000Eaton County Central Dispatch reported trees were downed in and around Olivet.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindOlivet$1Power lines downed.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindOlivet-Several trees blown down at the intersection of Ainge Road and 5 Point Highway.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOlivet-Numerous trees reported down.

Every storm recorded in Eaton 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

3 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
Residential Drive-Townline Brook Bridge3.1 miles2000
Bellevue Mill4.9 miles1975
Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge5.9 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eaton CountyAll 18 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.