Owosso Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Owosso Downtown Historic District is a substantially commercial historic district, located in downtown Owosso, Michigan, roughly bounded by the Shiawassee River, Comstock Street, Water Street, Park Street, and Mason Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
Wikipedia article Owosso Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Shiawassee County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Shiawassee R., Comstock, Water, Park and Mason Sts., Owosso, 48867
When was it listed? April 2014
Category. district
Township. Bennington township
National Register reference number. 14000126 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Owosso Downtown Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	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
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO FD 182134 - 2018
19 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000129 - 2018
12 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2018
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000222 - 201
2 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHIAWASSEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000029 - 2018
9 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000040 - 2019
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CORUNNA-CALEDONIA FD 0000055 - 2019
3 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000036 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee 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 Owosso Downtown Historic District: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fisher Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fuoss Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fuoss Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Grand River Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand River Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this property

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owosso, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 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
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$8,000	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$6,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$5,000	Power lines were blown down, resulting in an electrical fire.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$5,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$3,000	Trees and wires reported down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$3,000	Trained spotters reported several trees and power lines down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$2,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	$2,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Trees reported down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Trees reported down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Large trees trees and power lines reported down.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	At least 20 trees were snapped from a wet micro-burst close to the Shiawassee river in Owosso. Many of trees appeared unhealthy.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Law enforcement reported numerous trees down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Central dispatch reported trees blown down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Owosso	-	A tornado briefly touched down near M-52 and Garrison Roads. A 4 foot diameter tree was snapped.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Owosso	-	A weak tornado touched down in a farm field on West Dewey Road. Winds were strong enough to throw an empty grain bin 200 feet.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Law enforcement reported trees and wires blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Poles and wires down at M21 adn Baldwin Rd.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Large limbs down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Trees blown down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	Several trees blown down.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	The Shiawassee County Sheriff's department reported numerous large limbs down from strong thunderstorm winds.
April 1994	Hail	Owosso	-	Shiawassee County sheriff reported golf ball-size hail in both Perry and Owosso.
August 2022	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Owosso	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Owosso	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
William Horton Farmhouse	4.0 miles	1986
John N. Ingersoll House	5.0 miles	1980
Corunna High School	5.0 miles	2017
Julius Frieseke House	5.0 miles	1990
Curwood Castle	5.1 miles	1971
Pere Marquette Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1225	5.1 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000126 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shiawassee County	All 45 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.