A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, is the primary design and engineering center for General Motors (GM). The facility opened in stages from the 1950s to the 1970s.”
Wikipedia article General Motors Technical Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Macomb County · listed in 2000 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.00000224- 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
66 since 2018
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 66 fires within 5 miles of General Motors Technical Center
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 7 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
26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Debris and open burning
8
Natural
7
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of General Motors Technical Center: 4 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Tungsten, Tantalum, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Warren, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Lightning struck the ground at an athletic field as kids were rushing to leave soccer practice. One boy close to the strike was thrown to the ground. He was not seriously hurt, though he stayed overnight at a local hospital for precautionary reasons.
Lightning caused major damage to a house on Arden Street in Warren. The bolt hit the house and a tree next to it, starting the house on fire and collapsing the roof. Total damages were estimated at $250K.
The Clinton River in Clinton Township crested at 18.32 feet during the evening of September 14th, while the Clinton River near Mount Clemens crested at 16.16 feet during the morning hours of September 16th.
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
3 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.
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.
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