Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House is a private house located at 1224 Haggerty Road in Canton Township, Michigan. The structure is significant because it is one of the most finely crafted houses in the township and because of its association with one of the most important families in the area.”
Wikipedia article Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2003 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Truesdell, Ephraim and Emma Woodworth, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1224 Haggerty Rd., Canton, 48188
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Canton Township MPS
Charter township. Canton charter township
Architectural style. Stick style
National Register reference number. 03000174 - 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

38 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 36 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CANTON FD 0005507 - 2019
30 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0002021 - 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
4 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WESTLAND FD 0001131 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House: 2 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mijal Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Redman Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House	1.2 miles	2000
Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River	1.4 miles	2000
George and Mary Pine Smith House	2.0 miles	2000
Sheldon Inn	2.1 miles	2000
David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House	2.3 miles	2000
John and Edna Trusdell Fischer Farmstead	2.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000174 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.