Nellie Leland School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Nellie Leland School is a school building, originally built to serve handicapped children, located at 1395 Antietam Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Nellie Leland School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2002 · 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. Leland, Nellie, School - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1395 Antietam St., Detriot, 48207
When was it listed? February 2002
Category. building
City. Detroit city
Architect. Malcomson and Higginbotham
National Register reference number. 02000044 - 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

117 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Nellie Leland School between 2018 and 2019, burning about 117 acres in total. 11 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
Debris and open burning	58
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	5

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
7 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0033020 - 2018
3 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0031432 - 2019
28 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0035675 - 2018
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034326 - 2019
23 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034275 - 2019
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034284 - 2019
19 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0033618 - 2019
19 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034403 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Nellie Leland School: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cummings-Moore Graphite	Graphite	Producer
Mclouth Steel Gibralter Roll'G Mill	Iron	Producer
Stroble Primary Aluminum Plant	Aluminum	Past Producer

Every working 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
St. John's-St. Luke's Evangelical Church	0.2 miles	1982
Mies van der Rohe Residential District, Lafayette Park	0.2 miles	1996
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Complex	0.2 miles	1983
Chestnut Street-Grand Trunk Railroad	0.3 miles	2000
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church	0.3 miles	1972
Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Parish Complex (Boundary Increase)	0.3 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000044 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.