Photograph of Langford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead — Photograph by Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Landgford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead

Built in 1832. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Langford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead is a farm located at 797 Textile Road in Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”
Wikipedia article Langford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Washtenaw County · listed in 2006 · category: District · built in 1832.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Sutherland, Landgford and Lydia McMichael, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 797 Textile Rd., Pittsfield Charter Township, 48108
When was it listed? May 2006
Category. district
Charter township. Pittsfield charter township
When was it built? 1832
National Register reference number. 05000711 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Landgford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 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
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	5

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
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 751468 - 2019
9 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SALINE AREA FD 0000924 - 2019
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0821304 - 2018
29 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 0823638 - 2018
26 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SALINE AREA FD 0001000 - 2019
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 0818772 - 2018
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0646463 - 2019
26 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DPS 0820465 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Landgford and Lydia McMichael Sutherland Farmstead: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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
Du-Pine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maple Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O E Gooding & Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
O E Gooding & Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
William Brink Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Emanuel and Elizabeth Rentschler Farmstead	1.9 miles	2013
Henry R. Watson House	2.7 miles	1985
William H. Davenport House	2.7 miles	1975
East Michigan Avenue Historic District	2.8 miles	1985
Charles Guthard House	2.9 miles	1985
Detroit, Hillsdale and Indiana Railroad-Saline Depot	2.9 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000711 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washtenaw 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.