George and Martha Hitchcock House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The George and Martha Hitchcock House, also known as the Fuller-McGuire House, is a private house located at 205 East Michigan Street in Farwell, Michigan, United States. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1996 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article George and Martha Hitchcock House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Clare County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hitchcock, George and Martha, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 205 E. Michigan St., Farwell, 48622
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Township. Surrey township
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
Architect. George D. Mason
National Register reference number. 82002832 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of George and Martha Hitchcock House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
31 July 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 23
26 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 13
14 May 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 09
14 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 10
13 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SURREY TOWNSHIP FD 0000227 - 2019
9 April 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 09
9 April 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLARE 10
6 April 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Clare County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of George and Martha Hitchcock House: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Loomis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clare Prtlnd Cmnt Co Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
McKenna Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clare County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farwell, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Farwell	$15,000	Several trees were blown down and power lines were also downed in Farwell.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Farwell	$10,000	Several trees were blown down in and near Farwell.
July 2014	Hail	Farwell	$10,000	The public reported hail up to one and three quarters inch in diameter near Farwell.
July 2007	Hail	Farwell	$10,000	One inch diameter hail was reported at Clare and seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported at Farwell.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Farwell	$5,000	Clare County Central Dispatch reported trees were downed in Farwell at 2:20 PM EDT.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Farwell	-	Spotters reported flooded roadways in the Farwell area and across portions of southwest Clare County between 5:30 and 6:15 pm EDT. National Weather Service doppler radar indicated rainfall estimates of nearly 3.5 inches over a one hour period from slow-moving thunderstorms. No injuries or property damage was reported with this flood event.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Farwell	-	A trained weather spotter reported a large oak tree downed in Farwell. A damage estimate was not available.
June 1998	Hail	Farwell	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Farwell	-	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	4.9 miles	1994
	Clare Downtown Historic District	4.9 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002832 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.