Tuscola County Courthouse

Built in 1932 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Tuscola County Courthouse is a government building located at 440 North State Street in Caro, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Tuscola County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tuscola County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1932, Art Deco architecture.

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. 440 N. State St., Caro, 48723
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. building
City. Caro city
When was it built? 1932
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 96001419 - 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Tuscola County Courthouse between 1996 and 2019, burning about 10 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/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARO FD 0000153 - 2018
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRGROVE FD 0003419 - 2019
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARO FD 0000134 - 2018
11 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRGROVE FD 0002518 - 2018
19 May 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARO FD 0000068 - 2018
7 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRGROVE FD 0001419 - 2019
25 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARO FD 0000074 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Tuscola 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 Tuscola County Courthouse: 4 producers. All of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Smith Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscola County

Storms near this property

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caro, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Hail	Caro	$500,000	A severe thunderstorm moved southeast across Tuscola County on the 6th, dropping large hail over the communities of Fairgrove and Caro. In Caro, a car dealership suffered damages in excess of $100,000 to their stock of both used and new cars.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$100,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$30,000	Numerous trees reported down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$15,000	no account filed
March 2006	Flood	Caro	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$8,000	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$5,000	Trees and power lines reported down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$5,000	Numerous tree limbs and trees reported down, along with damaged windows.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$5,000	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$2,000	Numerous large limbs were downed.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	$2,000	no account filed
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Tree blown down onto a mobile home.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Trees reported down.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Large tree and wires reported down.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Numerous trees and power lines reported down across the county.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Trees reported down.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Six trees were reported blown down, along with wires.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Trees reported down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Four inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Law enforcement reported a tree blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Several large tree limbs and wires were reported down by the emergency manager.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Emergency management reported large trees blown down in thunderstorm winds.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and power lines on the northeast side of Caro. In Reese, several large limbs were snapped off of trees.
March 2012	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Caro	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Caro	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Caro	-	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

5 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
Moore, William J. and Lovila (Wooley), House	0.2 miles	2024
Hotel Montague	0.3 miles	1991
Trinity Episcopal Church	0.3 miles	1975
Watrous General Store	7.1 miles	1974
R. C. Burtis House	7.1 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001419 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tuscola 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.
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.