Photograph of Packard Proving Grounds — Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Packard Proving Grounds Gateway Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Packard Proving Grounds, was a proving ground established in Shelby Charter Township, Michigan in 1927 by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Packard Proving Grounds, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Macomb County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 49965 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Township, 48317
When was it listed? February 2007
Category. district
Charter township. Shelby charter township
National Register reference number. 06001322 - 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

67 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Packard Proving Grounds Gateway Complex between 2018 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 2 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
25 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005784 - 2018
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0002381 - 2019
18 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0009868 - 2019
17 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005593 - 2018
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0009742 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0010507 - 2018
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0001684 - 2019
14 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0001517 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Packard Proving Grounds Gateway Complex: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Fries Tile Works' Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Macomb Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morgan Number 1 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Macomb 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

4 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
Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal	1.0 miles	1972
Washington Octagon House	3.9 miles	1971
William Upton House	5.0 miles	1986
Clinton Grove Cemetery	7.9 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001322 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macomb County	All 15 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.