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Photograph of St. Clair Inn
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St. Clair Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Clair Inn is a hotel located at 500 North Riverside Avenue in St. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”

Wikipedia article St. Clair Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for St. Clair County · listed in 1995 · 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. 500 N. Riverside Ave., St. Clair, 48079
  • When was it listed? July 1995
  • Category. building
  • City. St. Clair city
  • National Register reference number. 95000074 - 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 St. Clair Inn between 2018 and 2020, 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 485 - 2019
1 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 434 - 2020
9 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 374 - 2020
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 355 - 2019
14 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 251 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARYSVILLE FD 0000563 - 2018
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 232 - 2020
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARYSVILLE FD 0000411 - 2019

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of St. Clair Inn: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Phosphorus-Phosphates, Halite, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Courtright Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant1966
Diamond Crystal Salt CompanySaltProducer
St. Clair Salt MineHaliteProducer1863, 1883
Shriner Brick Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
W.River Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this property

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names St. Clair, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$25,000The local newspaper included photographs of a 35-foot motor home on its side. The wind also picked up and tossed a 300-pound table across the patio at the same home and blew a large tree down on the home next door. Total property damages were estimated at roughly $25K.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$8,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$5,000Multiple reports of trees and power lines down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$3,000Downed wires.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$3,000A trained spotter reported shingles blown off a roof.
May 2003LightningSt Clair$1,000The post office on Trumball Street was closed for much of the day after lightning stuck the roof and caused the building's telephone lines and computer systems down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-Scattered five to eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-A trained spotter reported multiple large tree branches down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-Trained spotter reported an 8 inch diameter tree limb down.
July 2023HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2008HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2008HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2008HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2006HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2002HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2002HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2002HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2000HailSt Clair-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-no account filed
July 1996HailSt Clair-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Wadhams Road-Pine River Bridge4.8 miles2000
Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge4.9 miles2000
Ward-Holland House7.2 miles1972
Marine City City Hall7.4 miles1982
Marine City Water Works7.7 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000074 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Clair CountyAll 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.
  • 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.