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Photograph of Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House
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Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House was built as a private house at the corner of Canton Center and Warren Roads. It was donated to Canton Township and relocated to its current site at 500 N.”

Wikipedia article Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2000 · 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.
  • Listed as. Bartlett, Thomas and Maria Blackman, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 500 N. Ridge Rd. (Canton Township), Cherry Hill, 48187
  • When was it listed? June 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Canton Township MPS
  • Charter township. Canton charter township
  • National Register reference number. 00000614 - 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

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 25 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0006436 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005507 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005396 - 2019
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190403 - 2019
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0004628 - 2018
15 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0001614 - 2019
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesYPSILANTI TOWNSHIP FD 0002536 - 2018
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000516 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House: 1 producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Washtenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Hill, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015LightningCherry Hill$300,000no account filed
July 2019Flash FloodCherry Hill$250,000A quick 2 to 4 inches of rain fell causing flash flooding.
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Cherry Hill$100,000The weak tornado touched down just northwest of Pheasant Run Golf course and tracked southeast. Dozens of trees were downed and uprooted. The tornado continued southeast, tracking across Summit Parkway and Canton Center Road, bringing down large limbs in the process. As the tornado reached Sheldon Road, trees were sheared and hardwood tree fell onto a house. Maximum winds were estimated to be 80 mph. The tornado dissipated just north of the Lower River Rouge.
May 2011FloodCherry Hill$100,000Numerous streets and homes flooded across the county.
July 2019FloodCherry Hill-Flood waters took several hours to recede.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-Two small trees were reported blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-Trees and power lines reported down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCherry Hill-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
September 2015HailCherry Hill-no account filed
July 2011HailCherry Hill-no account filed
July 2011HailCherry Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000614 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 396 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.