G. W. Jones House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The George Washington Jones House is a private house located at 180 West Main Street in Marcellus, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article G. W. Jones House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Cass 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Jones, G. W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 180 W. Main St., Marcellus, 49067
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. building
Township. Marcellus township
Architectural style. Stick style
National Register reference number. 94001427 - 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

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of G. W. Jones House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000040 - 2018
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002396 - 2019
22 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TEXAS CHARTER TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000308 - 2019
26 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000030 - 2019
25 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000029 - 2018
23 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000025 - 2018
23 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000027 - 2018
22 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARCELLUS FD 0000024 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this property

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcellus, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	$15,000	Pictures of a barn that sustained damage at Bradt and W Main St.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	$15,000	Trees and power poles are down.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	$12,500	A severe thunderstorm downed a tree and several large limbs in the village of Marcellus. The downed tree landed on a vehicle parked at the corner of S. Centre and Dibble Street. Limbs and power lines were downed on N. Centre and North Streets and at the corner of Arbor and Snyder Street.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	$5,000	Trees downed in Marcellus.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	A trained spotter reported several small tree limbs down as well as a car rolled on its side for an unknown reason.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	Numerous reports of trees down in the area south of Marcellus.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 75 mph.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph wind gust.
June 2013	Hail	Marcellus	-	Law enforcement officials received several reports of quarter size hail.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	Pictures were posted on a local media outlets social media page of large tree branches being blown down.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	A survey of damage indicated the start of a roughly one mile wide swath of wind damage across northeastern Cass county. Numerous trees were damaged as a result of a concentrated burst of wind that continued into St. Joseph county in Michigan. Winds were likely in the 70 to 75 mph range as the line of storms moved into St. Joseph county.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	Several trees were blown down.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Marcellus	-	Highway 40, just south of Marcellus, was flooded for several hours as 5 to 6 inches of rain fell between 430 pm and 9 pm EST. No injuries or rescues were reported due to the flooding.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Marcellus	-	Trees down.
September 2025	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Marcellus	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Jones, Carroll and Bessie E. (Caul), House	under 500 feet	1997
	George Newton House	7.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001427 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cass County	All 9 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.