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James McColl House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The James McColl House is a private house located at 205 S. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article James McColl House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for St. Clair County · listed in 1985 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. McColl, James, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 205 S. Main St., Yale, 48097
  • When was it listed? January 1985
  • Category. building
  • City. Yale city
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 85000170 - 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of James McColl House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROCKWAY TOWNSHIP FD 020-154 - 2020
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesYALE FD 018-039 - 2018
26 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesYALE FD 018-037 - 2018
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENOCKEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000076 - 2018
3 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROCKWAY TOWNSHIP FD 020-049 - 2020
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPEAKER TOWNSHIP FD 0000015 - 2018
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKENOCKEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000070 - 2018

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 James McColl House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
St Clair County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yale, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2023LightningYale1 hurtno account filed
September 2008FloodYale$300,000no account filed
June 2011FloodYale$50,000Central dispatch reported numerous roads closed and washed out. There was a substantial amount of flooding in Burtchville, Fort Gratiot, and the northeastern townships. Up to 100 homes received some form of flood damage, as the rain overwhelmed the drainage system.
June 1996Tornado (F2)Yale$25,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindYale$20,000A large tree fell onto a home, damaging part of the roof.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindYale$8,000Trees and power lines were downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindYale$8,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindYale$8,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F1)Yale$5,000A tornado touched down in the area of Bricker and Yale Road. One roof was damaged, along with numerous trees blown down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindYale$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindYale$3,000A trained spotter reported a utility pole down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindYale-Numerous trees and power lines down in Yale.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindYale-Numerous trees reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindYale-A large tree was blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindYale-A trained weather spotter reported trees blown on the power lines.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindYale-St Clair County Central Dispatch reported that power lines were blown down in thunderstorm winds.
April 2020HailYale-no account filed
May 2013HailYale-no account filed
June 2008HailYale-no account filed
July 2008HailYale-no account filed
July 2008HailYale-no account filed
July 2008HailYale-no account filed
July 2008HailYale-no account filed
June 2000HailYale-no account filed
August 2000HailYale-no account filed
July 2000HailYale-no account filed
April 1998HailYale-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindYale-no account filed
August 1995HailYale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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

1 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
Jeddo Road-South Branch Mill Creek Drain Bridge2.3 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000170 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Clair CountyAll 28 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.