Mikulich General Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Mikulich General Store is a commercial building located at the junction of County Roads 1 and 44 in Limestone Township, Traunik, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Mikulich General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Alger County · listed in 1993 · 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 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Co. Rts. 1 and 44, Limestone Township, Traunik, 49816
When was it listed? July 1993
Category. building
Township. Limestone township
National Register reference number. 93000428 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mikulich General Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 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
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
10 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 June 1992	Natural	under an acre	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	EAGLE NEST
20 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	not named
5 May 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	STRAITS LAKE
4 May 1994	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000720 - 2020
28 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MATHIS TOWNSHIP FD 0000519 - 2019
10 April 1995	Debris and open burning	47 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Storms near this property

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traunik, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 hail. 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
July 2023	Hail	Traunik	-	Two inch diameter hail was reported near Traunik.
July 2023	Hail	Traunik	-	There was a delayed report of dime to nickel-sized hail in Traunik which shredded leaves.

Every storm recorded in Alger 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	King Road-Whitefish River Bridge	5.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000428 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alger County	All 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.
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.