Sheldon Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Sheldon Inn was a two-story apartment building located at 44134 Michigan Avenue, in Sheldon Corners in Canton Township, Michigan. It was built in 1825, and previously used as a single-family home and a travelers' inn.”
Wikipedia article Sheldon Inn, 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.
Address. 44134 Michigan Ave. (Canton Township), Sheldon, 48188
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. building
Also known as. Canton Township MPS
Charter township. Canton charter township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 00000618 - 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

28 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Sheldon Inn between 2018 and 2020, burning about 28 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/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
13 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CANTON FD 0006436 - 2019
8 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELLEVILLE FD 250 - 2020
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CANTON FD 0005507 - 2019
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CANTON FD 0005396 - 2019
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WESTLAND FD 0001177 - 2018
5 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CANTON FD 0004628 - 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 Sheldon Inn: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Redman Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheldon	$15,000	The local television stations reported a large tree down on a trailer home. Property damages were estimated at roughly $15K.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheldon	-	A 8 inch diameter tree limb reported down.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheldon	-	A three to four inch diameter tree limb reported blown down.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheldon	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheldon	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2011	Hail	Sheldon	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Sheldon	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Sheldon	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Sheldon	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Sheldon	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
George and Mary Pine Smith House	0.3 miles	2000
John and Edna Trusdell Fischer Farmstead	0.4 miles	2000
David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House	0.7 miles	2000
Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River	1.0 miles	2000
Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House	2.1 miles	2003
Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House	3.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000618 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 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.