Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store is a company store located at 10816 M-32 East in Johannesburg, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.”
Wikipedia article Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 2009 · 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. 10816 M-32 E., Johannesburg, 49751
When was it listed? July 2009
Category. building
Township. Charlton township
National Register reference number. 09000475 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 1993	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000022 - 2019
11 July 2018	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 02 - FAST CAR FIRE
21 June 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 June 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 05 DOUGLAS LAKE 1
10 June 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OTSEGO 06 DOUGLAS LAKE 2

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Black Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	State of Michigan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johannesburg, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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
September 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Johannesburg	$215,000	An EF-1 tornado carved a path across southeast Otsego County. A large number of hardwood and softwood trees were downed, with several falling on area residences. Peak winds were estimated at 110 mph.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Johannesburg	$150,000	An estimated 350 to 400 trees were downed in and around the Louis M. Groen Nature Preserve.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Johannesburg	$5,000	Large tree limbs were knocked down from thunderstorm winds, blocking Douglas Lake Road.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Johannesburg	$3,000	Trees downed near M-32 and Rock Rd.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Johannesburg	-	Powerlines down.
April 1993	Hail	Johannesburg	-	Thunderstorm winds damaged about one dozen 4- to 6-inch diameter cedar trees. The trees were either torn down or snapped off.
June 2006	Hail	Johannesburg	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Johannesburg	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Johannesburg	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Johannesburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000475 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 3 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.