Holland Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Holland Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Eighth Street from just east of College Avenue to River Avenue, and along and River Avenue from Ninth Street to just north of Eighth Street in Holland, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article Holland Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, Eighth St. from just E of College Ave. to River Ave. and River Ave. from Ninth St. to just N of Eighth St., Holland, 49423
When was it listed? October 1990
Category. district
City. Holland city
National Register reference number. 90001534 - 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Holland Downtown Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	2

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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19636 - 2019
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19543 - 2019
16 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
10 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 20528 - 2020
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0002036 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0002003 - 2018
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0001973 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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 Holland Downtown Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Zeeland Brick Co.Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this property

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holland, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2008	Flash Flood	Holland	1 killed, $1,000,000	A 76 year old farmer drowned while trying to remove boards from the Worley Drain Dam that regulates waters from Bass Creek. A significant number of roads were washed out in the city of Holland and water levels on roads in some low lying locations reached the roof tops of cars. \|\|A presidential disaster declaration was issued for Ottawa county due to all the flooding.
June 1996	Flash Flood	Holland	$100,000	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$75,000	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Holland	$50,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$25,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines and transformers across the city of Holland. The highest measured wind gust with this line of storms was 42 mph, at 1 mile east of Holland State Park at 8:10 PM EDT. Marble-sized hail was also reported in Holland at 7:40 PM EDT.
October 2001	Flash Flood	Holland	$25,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$20,000	Strong winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Holland.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$15,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$10,000	The ASOS weather observing system at the Tulip City airport in Holland measured a 59 m.p.h. wind gust.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed by gusty thunderstorm winds in Holland.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$10,000	Ottawa County Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines downed in the city of Holland around 14th Street. Consumers Energy reported 3,200 customers lost power across southern Ottawa County during the storm. In northern Ottawa County, a lightning strike at a communications tower in Grand Haven stopped emergency radio communications across the entire county. Ottawa County Central Dispatch was forced to use backup towers at emergency operations centers in Allendale and Holland.
August 2001	Hail	Holland	$10,000	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Holland	$10,000	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Holland	$5,000	Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported one mile west of Holland.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$5,000	A wind gust of around 70 m.p.h. was measured by wind equipment in Holland.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$5,000	A large tree was uprooted, and the wall of a building under construction was blown down.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	$3,000	Law enforcement reported one tree blown down in Spring Lake.
June 2002	Hail	Holland	$2,000	Three quarters inch hail was also reported by the public near Holland just north of the Allegan and Ottawa county line.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	-	A peak wind gust to 59 mph was measured at Spyglass condos in Holland.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	-	As storms came upon shore, a wind gust of 66 miles per hour was observed at the Holland State Park. Further inland, a measured wind gust of 47 miles per hour was recorded on the campus of Grand Valley State University in Allendale.
April 2010	Hail	Holland	-	A trained spotter in Holland reported one inch diameter hail.
October 2007	Hail	Holland	-	Three quarters inch diameter hail was reportd at the intersection of Chicago Drive and Waverly Roads.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Holland	-	Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph 3 miles north of Holland.
October 2007	Hail	Holland	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Holland	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Holland	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Holland	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Holland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Holland Reformed Protestant Dutch Church	0.1 miles	1990
Holland Old City Hall and Fire Station	0.2 miles	1985
Holland Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.3 miles	1990
Holland Historic District	0.4 miles	1983
Third Reformed Church of Holland	0.5 miles	1971
Thomas and Anna Morrissey House	0.5 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001534 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ottawa County	All 29 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.