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Photograph of Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House
Photograph by Matt Cash, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Devereaux Octagon House is an historic octagonal house located at 66425 Eight Mile Road in Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan. The house is one of only three extant octagonal houses in Washtenaw County, and remains in excellent and near original condition.”

Wikipedia article Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Washtenaw 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 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Devereaux, Nathan B., Octagon House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 66425 Eight Mile Rd., Northfield, 48178
  • When was it listed? April 2003
  • Category. building
  • Township. Northfield township
  • National Register reference number. 03000177 - 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

20 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House between 2009 and 2020, burning about 28 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190379 - 2019
3 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHTENAW 01
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19906 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000485 - 2019
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000863 - 2018
30 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000445 - 2018
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000312 - 2018
17 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000915 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House: 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Oak Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Oaks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw 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
Bessert-Ryan House2.9 miles2025
Salem Methodist Episcopal Church and Salem Walker Cemetery4.1 miles1992
Groves Farm4.4 miles2023
Leland, Joshua G. and Nancy (Bly), House4.5 miles2025
Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery4.8 miles2026
German Park Recreation Club5.1 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000177 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washtenaw CountyAll 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.