Colony Tower Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Colony Tower Complex is a decorative water tower, with a gate and gatehouse, located at 6503 Dyke Rd. The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and the gatehouse joined it in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Colony Tower Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for St. Clair County · listed in 1994 · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6503 Dyke Rd. (MI 29), Clay Township, Pearl Beach, 48001
When was it listed? July 1994
Category. building
Township. Clay township
National Register reference number. 94000756 - 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Colony Tower Complex between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 2 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
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
2 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 468 - 2018
3 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2020
11 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 399 - 2019
7 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2019
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 277 - 2019
25 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 347 - 2019
11 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 296 - 2019
29 March 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 192 - 2019

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this property

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl Beach, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl Beach	$20,000	Multiple trees and powerlines reported down. One tree fell onto a house, while another tree landed on a truck.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl Beach	-	Wind damaged a garage door and exterior wall of a home.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl Beach	-	A stretch of sporadic wind damage occurred along Pointe Tremble Rd between Maynard Drive and Pointe Tremble Lane. Reports include siding blown off a marine services building, a garage door blown in, siding blown off of a couple homes, a large tree limb down on powerlines, and a pontoon boat parked on land was flipped over.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Pearl Beach	-	Large tree limbs reported down.
May 2010	Hail	Pearl Beach	-	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

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
Colony Tower Complex (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1995
Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge	4.3 miles	2000
LeRoy Smith House	4.6 miles	1996
St. Clair Flats South Channel Range Lights	7.8 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000756 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Clair County	All 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.
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.