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Photograph of Watrous General Store
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Watrous General Store

Built in 1864. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Watrous General Store, also known as the Juniata Township Hall, is a former commercial structure located at 4607 W. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”

Wikipedia article Watrous General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tuscola County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1864.

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. 4607 W. Caro Rd., Watrousville, 48768
  • When was it listed? October 1974
  • Category. building
  • Township. Juniata township
  • When was it built? 1864
  • National Register reference number. 74000998 - 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Watrous General Store between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 1162018 - 2018
6 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARO FD 0000117 - 2018
29 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 1062018 - 2018
15 June 1992Debris and open burning2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0822018 - 2018
4 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0802018 - 2018
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVASSAR FD 0322019 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Tuscola 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 Watrous General Store: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Peterhans Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No 1 and Plant M-46Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Washburn Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this property

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watrousville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindWatrousville$500A tree was reported down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWatrousville-Power lines reported down, along with a roof blown off.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindWatrousville-Trees and wire reported down.
April 2011FloodWatrousville-Several roads were closed due to flooding from heavy showers and thundertorms.
April 2024HailWatrousville-no account filed
June 2004HailWatrousville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscola 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
R. C. Burtis House0.3 miles1975
Townsend North House5.9 miles1977
Hotel Columbia6.3 miles1992
Smith House6.3 miles1972
McKinley School6.3 miles1972
Hotel Montague6.9 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000998 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuscola CountyAll 14 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.