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Photograph of Lake Orion Historic District
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Lake Orion Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“Lake Orion Historic District is a commercial and residential historic district located in Lake Orion, Michigan and roughly bounded by Elizabeth Street, Hauxwell Drive, Front Street, and Lapeer Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.”

Wikipedia article Lake Orion Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lake Orion Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORION TOWNSHIP FD 1555 - 2018
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOXFORD FD 181049 - 2018
17 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORION TOWNSHIP FD 0000198 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOXFORD FD 180632 - 2018
24 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOAKLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000208 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lake Orion Historic District: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Sibley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
American Aggregate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granger Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford Pit No. 311Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

21 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Orion, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLake Orion$20,000Trees reported down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLake Orion$5,000Widespread trees reported blown down.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLake Orion$3,000Two power poles were reported down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A pine tree snapped.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-Eight to ten inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A few trees and tree limbs reported down.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 65 MPH.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-Several trees and limbs were reported blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLake Orion-A trained spotter reported numerous branches blown down.
February 2026HailLake Orion-no account filed
July 2011HailLake Orion-no account filed
June 2009HailLake Orion-no account filed
June 2009HailLake Orion-no account filed
June 2009HailLake Orion-no account filed
July 2007HailLake Orion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000722 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland 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.
  • 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.