Canton, Michigan

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

• Benjamin and Mary Ann Bradford Houselisted 2000
• Kinyon, Orrin, and Roxanne Fairman, Houselisted 2000
• Patterson, John, and Eliza Barr, Houselisted 2000
• Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell Houselisted 2003

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1905 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1912 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500
• 1936 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Canton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Sheldon
• Norwayne
• Belleville North
• Denton
• Plymouth
• Wayne

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Canton: 2 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.

Every working recorded in Wayne County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867315. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.