BlockFrom the record
One of 45 National Register listings published here for Shiawassee County · listed in 1980 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
West Town Historic Commercial and Industrial District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- Address. Main St., Owosso, 48867
- When was it listed? November 1980
- Category. district
- Also known as. Owosso MRA
- City. Owosso city
- National Register reference number. 80001911 - 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
19 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of West Town Historic Commercial and Industrial District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. 3 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
| 2 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CORUNNA-CALEDONIA FD 0000108 - 2019 |
| 12 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2018 |
| 12 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000100 - 2018 |
| 11 July 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000098 - 2018 |
| 4 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000079 - 2018 |
| 18 May 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OWOSSO FD 0001096 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Town Historic Commercial and Industrial District: 3 producers. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan Brick Pit and Mill | Clay | Producer | ||
| Owosso Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Shiawassee County Road Comm. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
41 since 1994Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | George Perrigo House | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Ebenezer Gould House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Albert Palmer House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Lyman Woodard Company Workers' Housing | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Lyman Woodard Furniture and Casket Company Building | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Woodard, Lee, and Sons Building | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80001911 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.