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East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building is a commercial building located at 104 Main Street in East Jordan, Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”

Wikipedia article East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Charlevoix County · listed in 2008 · 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. 104 Main St, East Jordan, 49727
  • When was it listed? July 2008
  • Category. building
  • City. East Jordan city
  • National Register reference number. 08000586 - 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building between 1996 and 2018, burning about 51 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 01 WILDERNESS
10 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2006Debris and open burning12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 0002
18 June 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 02
25 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 05
8 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unnamed Shale PitClayPast Producer
Norman Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Jordan, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2016HailEast Jordan$45,000Some vehicles were damaged by very large hail.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$40,000Large tree blown down onto home, and a roof blown off a campground building, amid other wind damage reports from the East Jordan area. Trained spotter reported a gust to 52 mph in the Boyne City area, and the AWOS sensor at the Boyne Falls airport reported a gust to 51mph at 21:34. Several power outages were noted in the East Jordan area during the evening and overnight, prior to icing-related outages.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$20,000Many trees and power lines were downed.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$15,000Barn roof blown off.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$2,000Several trees down with a wind speed of 57 mph measured by a personal weather station 13 feet above the ground.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan$1,000A large tree was blown down.
June 2011HailEast Jordan-A small branch was also downed by wind.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-A spotter measured a 63 mph wind gust.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-Several trees were downed.
July 2003HailEast Jordan-Numerous thunderstorms developed across northern Lower Michigan in the evening hours, but only one became severe, producing nickel-sized hail in East Jordan.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-Numerous trees snapped off and/or uprooted around the intersection of M-66 and M-32. Many powerlines also down.
September 2017HailEast Jordan-no account filed
October 2016HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 2008HailEast Jordan-no account filed
March 2007HailEast Jordan-no account filed
August 2002HailEast Jordan-no account filed
August 2000HailEast Jordan-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-no account filed
July 1996HailEast Jordan-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindEast Jordan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix 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
Votruba Blockunder 500 feet2008
John J. and Eva Reynier Porter Estate2.4 miles1998
Boyne City Water Works Building6.5 miles1998
Wolverine Hotel6.9 miles1986
Boyne City Central Historic District6.9 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000586 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Charlevoix CountyAll 17 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.