Shiawassee County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Shiawassee County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Corunna, the county seat of Shiawassee County, Michigan. It is a Michigan State Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Shiawassee County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Shiawassee County · listed in 1982 · 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. Shiawassee St., Corunna, 48817
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
City. Corunna city
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Claire Allen
National Register reference number. 82000546 - 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

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Shiawassee County Courthouse between 2018 and 2019, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
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 0000100 - 2018
2 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHIAWASSEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000029 - 2018
18 May 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO FD 0001096 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shiawassee County Courthouse: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fuoss Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Michigan Brick Pit and Mill	Clay	Producer
New Corunna Brick Co Clay Shale Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
New Egy.And Aetna Port.Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corunna, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 1998	Lightning	Corunna	$75,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	$60,000	no account filed
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	$50,000	Trees and power lines reported down across the county.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	Trees reported blown down.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	A trained spotter reported sidings and shutters blown off.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	Law enforcement reported a large tree down on state road just north of M-21.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	Spotters reported several trees and telephone poles blown down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Corunna	-	Several trees blown down.
March 2003	Hail	Corunna	-	no account filed
January 1996	Hail	Corunna	-	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
Corunna High School	0.2 miles	2017
John N. Ingersoll House	0.5 miles	1980
Julius Frieseke House	2.5 miles	1990
Pere Marquette Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1225	2.5 miles	1994
Daniel Gould House	2.6 miles	1980
Mason Street Historic Residential District	2.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000546 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.