Winsor and Snover Bank Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Winsor and Snover Bank Building is a commercial structure located at 8648 Lake Street in Port Austin, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Winsor and Snover Bank Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron County · listed in 1987 · 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.
Address. 8648 Lake St., Port Austin, 48467
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. building
Township. Port Austin township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 87000482 - 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

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Winsor and Snover Bank Building between 2001 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WILBUR
5 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PORT AUSTIN FD 0000018 - 2018
7 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON 01
21 May 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	JOSE LAKE

Every fire recorded in Huron 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 Winsor and Snover Bank Building: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Grind Stone City Sandstone Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this property

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Austin, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Tornado (EF0)	Port Austin	$100,000	A tornado touched down near the intersection of N Hellman and Grindstone Rd, 1 mile east of Port Austin. Shortly after the tornado touched down, an outbuilding was destroyed, marking its peak intensity of 80 mph winds. As the tornado tracked east, a field of soybean crops was damaged. Numerous trees were then damaged as the tornado approached Sullivan Rd, in which the damage swath was approximately 50 yards in width. The tornado continued to track eastward, causing damage to a fence line before lifting just prior to reaching Tomlinson Rd.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	$50,000	Local media reported downed electrical poles and trees.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	$50,000	Storm spotters reported that a large tree was uprooted and blown onto a house in thunderstorms winds. The house sustained extensive damage.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	$15,000	A large tree was blown down onto a vehicle.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	-	Multiple power lines reported down.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	-	A trained spotter measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	-	Central dispatch reported multiple trees blown down across M-25 in and around Port Austin.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	-	The emergency manager reported numerous trees and wires down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	-	A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Austin	-	Power lines were blown down, leaving 2400 people without power.
April 2025	Hail	Port Austin	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Port Austin	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Port Austin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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

4 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
Smith-Culhane House	0.1 miles	2001
Charles G. Learned House	0.1 miles	1984
Port Austin Reef Light	2.7 miles	2011
Grindstone City Historic District	4.8 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000482 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Huron County	All 27 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.