Jacob Fishbeck Farmstead

Built in 1853 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Jacob Fishbeck Farmstead is a farm located at 5151 Crooked Lake Road in Genoa Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Fishbeck Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1853, Greek Revival architecture.

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 5 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Fishbeck, Jacob, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5151 Crooked Lake Rd., Genoa Township, 48843
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. building
Township. Genoa township
When was it built? 1853
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 03000178 - 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Fishbeck Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIGHTON AREA FD 0001398 - 2019
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIGHTON AREA FD 0001080 - 2018
11 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIGHTON AREA FD 0001087 - 2018
1 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIGHTON AREA FD 0001026 - 2019
4 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIGHTON AREA FD 0000849 - 2019
17 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOWELL AREA FD 0000656 - 2019
21 May 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIGHTON AREA FD 0000684 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Livingston 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 Jacob Fishbeck Farmstead: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Livingston County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Livingston County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Livingston County Road Comm. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Reyhl Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston 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
August Westphal Farmstead	2.5 miles	1985
Western House	3.8 miles	1986
Livingston County Courthouse	5.2 miles	1976
John H. and Martha Durfee Galloway House	5.2 miles	2006
William K. and Nellie Sexton House	5.3 miles	2013
Howell Downtown Historic District	5.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000178 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston County	All 14 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.