Huron City Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Huron City Historic District is a historic district encompassing the village of Huron City, Michigan, with structures located primarily along Pioneer Drive. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Huron City Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Pioneer Dr., Huron and Port Austin Townships, Huron City, 48468
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. district
Township. Port Austin township
National Register reference number. 95000446 - 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Huron City Historic District in 2018, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined	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
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KINDE AREA FD 0000011 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Huron City Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Grind Stone City Sandstone Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huron City, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Huron City	$75,000	A National Weather Service Storm Survey confirmed a weak EF0 tornado hit the Lighthouse County Park in Huron County. The tornado touched down at 1011 PM about 1.5 miles northwest of the Park, and tracked over and close to Lighthouse Road. The tornado, with maximum winds of 80 mph, then continued to track southeast, moving through the County Park and exiting out into Lake Huron at 1013 PM. The total path length was estimated at 2 miles, with a maximum width of 75 yards. \|Numerous trees were blown down, one of which fell onto a camper. Roof damage was also observed at one home.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron City	-	A few trees reported down.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Huron City	-	Multiple trees reported down.
May 2011	Hail	Huron City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron 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

3 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
Grindstone City Historic District	3.6 miles	1971
Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse	3.9 miles	1973
Charles G. Learned House	8.0 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Huron County	All 27 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.