Oscoda County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Oscoda County Courthouse was the county courthouse for Oscoda County, Michigan, located in Mio at 311 Morenci Ave (M-33). The courthouse was a Michigan State Historic Site and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Oscoda County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Oscoda County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 311 Morenci Ave., Mio, 48647
When was it listed? August 1972
Category. building
Township. Mentor township
National Register reference number. 72000651 - 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Oscoda County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,104 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	27
Arson/incendiarism	25
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Fireworks	3
Smoking	3
Natural	2

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
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	SEELEY
27 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	BIG CEDAR #2
24 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WIRE
20 September 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WILCOX RD
19 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	BIG MAC ATTACK
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	AU-SABLE CAMPGROUND
11 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WOODCHIP #3
11 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WOODCHIP #2

Every fire recorded in Oscoda County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mio, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	1 hurt, $10,000	Trees downed. One tree fell on a Mio resident, who suffered a broken back.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	$45,000	Trees downed along Camp Ten Road. A home on Cherry Creek Road was almost split in two by a falling tree.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Mio	$3,000	Kittle Road washed out in Elmer Township. Two other roads also affected. Roads were still closed two weeks later.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	2 trees down on road.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Trees snapped off and/or uprooted. Some powerlines also down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Strong thunderstorm winds toppled several trees of up to 18 inches in diameter.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Fifty-five mph winds reported by spotter.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Spotter in Mio reported downed power lines as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down 12 inch diameter trees in Mio on M-33. There were also several reports of three-quarter inch hail.
July 1994	Hail	Mio	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down 12 inch diameter trees in Mio on M-33. There were also several reports of three-quarter inch hail.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	Several trees were uprooted by strong thunderstorm winds as reported by a ham radio operator.
July 2014	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mio	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Mio	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oscoda 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 72000651 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oscoda County	All 1 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.
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.