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Photograph of Annapolis Park Historic District
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Annapolis Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Annapolis Park Historic District is a historic district located along Julius, Matthew, Hanover, Farnum, Alan, and Paul Streets in Westland, Michigan, covering 71 acres (290,000 m2) and 354 buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”

Wikipedia article Annapolis Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

49 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Annapolis Park Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 4 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 use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural4
Debris and open burning1

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
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003111 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005931 - 2019

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 Annapolis Park Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Cadillac Sands Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westland, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 6 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2014Thunderstorm WindWestland5 hurtAn event tent fell over and injured 5 people.
July 2005LightningWestland1 hurtA Westland teenager was injured when lightning struck a tree he was standing under. The boy received first and second degree burns on his body.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWestland$50,000The media reported damage to a garage and car from thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWestland$20,000Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland$15,000The local television stations reported a large tree uprooted on a house.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWestland$5,000Trained spotters reported power lines and utility poles blown down at Wayne and Cherry Hill roads. A newspaper also reported that a large tree had fallen onto a house near Cherry Hill and Carlson roads. Only minor damage was reported.
September 1997LightningWestland$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland$3,000The local television stations reported trees and power lines down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter reported a large tree down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter reported trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindWestland-Trees and power lines blown down.
July 2011HailWestland-no account filed
May 2007HailWestland-no account filed
March 2006HailWestland-no account filed
May 2004HailWestland-no account filed
July 2004HailWestland-no account filed
May 2000HailWestland-no account filed
July 1997HailWestland-no account filed
May 1997HailWestland-no account filed
April 1995HailWestland-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Malcolm X House1.1 miles2021
Norwayne Historic District2.2 miles2013
Henry Ford Square House3.9 miles1980
Saint Rita Apartments4.8 miles2017
Marwood Apartments4.9 miles2019
Commandant's Quarters5.2 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000405 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.