Botsford-Graser House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Botsford-Graser House is a single-family home located at 24105 Locust Drive in Farmington Hills, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Botsford-Graser House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland 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. Botsford--Graser House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 24105 Locust Dr., Farmington Hills, 48335
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. building
City. Farmington Hills city
National Register reference number. 02000158 - 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

26 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Botsford-Graser House between 2010 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
11 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOVI FD 0004815 - 2019
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007106 - 2019
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018
2 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007405 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington Hills, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 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 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington Hills	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew over a tree and damaged the roofs of two buildings, including the Old Orchard Theater, at the intersection of Orchard Lake Road and 12-mile Road.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington Hills	$1,000	About 6,000 people were without power after strong winds blew down power lines.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington Hills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Farmington Historic District	0.5 miles	1976
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Farmington	0.8 miles	2014
Royal Aldrich House	1.7 miles	1994
Botsford Inn	3.6 miles	1979
John Grace School	4.1 miles	2023
Joseph D. Yerkes House	4.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000158 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland County	All 87 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.
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.