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Photograph of John W. Keeney and Erena Alexander Rogers Farm
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John W. and Erena Alexander Rogers Keeney Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Keeney and Erena Alexander Rogers Farm, commonly known simply as the Keeney Farm, is a historic district located at 5300 Monroe Street (M-50) in Franklin Township in north-central Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 2001.”

Wikipedia article John W. and Erena Alexander Rogers Keeney Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Keeney, John W. and Erena Alexander Rogers, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 5300 Monroe, Franklin Township, 49287
  • When was it listed? September 2001
  • Category. district
  • Township. Franklin township
  • National Register reference number. 01001020 - 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

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of John W. and Erena Alexander Rogers Keeney Farm between 2005 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
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
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000389 - 2018
3 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAND LAKE VFD 0000118 - 2018
23 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000326 - 2018
27 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000233 - 2019
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON FD 090 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 W. and Erena Alexander Rogers Keeney Farm: 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
Gallop Pit No. 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee 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
Nathaniel S. Wheeler House2.4 miles1975
Davenport Hotel3.1 miles2007
Irish Hills Towers4.1 miles2007
Saint Joseph Church and Shrine4.5 miles2007
Clinton Downtown Historic District6.8 miles2010
Tecumseh Historic District (Boundary Increase)6.9 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001020 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee CountyAll 45 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.