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Photograph of John and Edna Truesdell Fischer Farmstead
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John and Edna Trusdell Fischer Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The John and Edna Truesdell Fischer Farmstead is a private farm, including house and outbuildings, located at 4896-5228 Sheldon Road in Canton Township, Michigan. The 1897 Queen Anne farmhouse located on the site is also known as the Michael and Catherine Hasselbach Fischer House.”

Wikipedia article John and Edna Truesdell Fischer Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Fischer, John and Edna Trusdell, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4896-5228 S. Sheldon Rd. (Canton Township), Sheldon, 48188
  • When was it listed? June 2000
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Canton Township MPS
  • Charter township. Canton charter township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style
  • National Register reference number. 00000617 - 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of John and Edna Trusdell Fischer Farmstead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Smoking2
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
8 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVILLE FD 250 - 2020
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005507 - 2019
3 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVAN BUREN TOWNSHIP FD 0001606 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005396 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 0001177 - 2018

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 John and Edna Trusdell Fischer Farmstead: 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
Redman Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

10 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheldon, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSheldon$15,000The local television stations reported a large tree down on a trailer home. Property damages were estimated at roughly $15K.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSheldon-A 8 inch diameter tree limb reported down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSheldon-A three to four inch diameter tree limb reported blown down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSheldon-A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSheldon-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2011HailSheldon-no account filed
March 2006HailSheldon-no account filed
May 2004HailSheldon-no account filed
July 2004HailSheldon-no account filed
July 2004HailSheldon-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sheldon Inn0.4 miles2000
George and Mary Pine Smith House0.7 miles2000
David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House1.0 miles2000
Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River1.2 miles2000
Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House2.5 miles2003
Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House3.6 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000617 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.