William Hayden House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The William Hayden House is a private residence located at 108 West Pottawatamie Street in the city of Tecumseh in northeast Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1986.”
Wikipedia article William Hayden House (Tecumseh, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee County · listed in 1986 · 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.
Listed as. Hayden, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 108 W. Pottawatamie, Tecumseh, 49229
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Tecumseh MRA
Township. Macon township
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86001568 - 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of William Hayden House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TECUMSEH FD 527 - 2020
3 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILAN AREA FD 515 - 2020
26 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000141 - 2018
18 June 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 336 - 2020
13 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 326 - 2020
13 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILAN AREA FD 451 - 2020
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MILAN AREA FD 285 - 2019
3 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000069 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of William Hayden House: 1 past producer, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Comfort Brick and Tile Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Irish Hills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this property

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tecumseh, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 lightning. 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 2002	Lightning	Tecumseh	$150,000	Lightning struck a home and set it on fire. The home sustained serious damage from the fire.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$125,000	no account filed
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$20,000	Multiple trees and powerlines down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$20,000	Trees and powerlines reported down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$4,000	Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$4,000	Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$4,000	Several trees were blown down.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$3,000	Multiple trees and powerlines down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$2,500	Law enforcement reported power lines and trees down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$2,000	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$1,000	Trees were reported down.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$1,000	A trained spotter reported power lines down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	$1,000	Central Dispatcher reported a tree blown down and covering both lanes of highway.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Multiple large tree limbs reported blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Large tree limb observed down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Tree bent in half.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Tree reported down.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	A 4 inch diameter tree was reported down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Two trees reported blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Central dispatch reported several trees blown down.
November 2005	Lightning	Tecumseh	-	Lightning struck the northwest corner of a home located at 509 Maple Drive in Tecumseh. The strike damaged the exterior and drywall of a bedroom.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	A ham radio operator reported that thunderstorm winds blew an 18 inch diameter tree down.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	Law enforcement reported that thunderstorm winds blew several 6 inch diameter tree limbs and several power lines down.
May 2011	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
October 1999	Hail	Tecumseh	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Tecumseh	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pennington, John-Ford, Henry, House	4.5 miles	1974
G. P. Sparks House	5.1 miles	1986
Musgrove Evans House	5.2 miles	1972
Hall, Joseph E., House	5.4 miles	1986
Saint Elizabeth's Church	5.4 miles	1986
Dr. Samuel Catlin House	5.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001568 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee County	All 45 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.