Axford-Coffin Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Axford-Coffin Farm, also known as Cranberry Lake Farm, is a farmstead located at 384-388 West Predmore Road in Oakland Charter Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Axford-Coffin Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Axford--Coffin Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 384-388 W. Predmore Rd., Oakland Township, 48363
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. district
Charter township. Oakland charter township
National Register reference number. 02000159 - 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Axford-Coffin Farm between 2018 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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	5
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
13 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001820 - 2018
17 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORION TOWNSHIP FD 0000198 - 2019
13 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000565 - 2019
28 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000476 - 2019
24 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OAKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000208 - 2018
24 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000137 - 2018
18 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000123 - 2018
14 February 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000076 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Axford-Coffin Farm: 8 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Addison Township Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Compton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Great Lakes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Holloway Oakland County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Natural Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Romeo Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sees Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House	3.4 miles	2002
Eli and Sidney Teeter Albertson House	3.7 miles	2002
Lake Orion Historic District	4.8 miles	2006
Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge	5.2 miles	2005
Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station	5.4 miles	2013
Stony Creek Village Historic District	6.4 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000159 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.
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.