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Photograph of George B. Horton and Amanda Bradish Farmstead
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George B. and Amanda Bradish Horton Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Horton and Amanda Bradish Farmstead is a privately owned farmhouse that sits on 40 acres of land at 4650 West Horton Road in rural Fairfield Township in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2007.”

Wikipedia article George B. and Amanda Bradish Horton Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Horton, George B. and Amanda Bradish, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4650 W. Horton Rd., Fairfield Township, 49279
  • When was it listed? February 2007
  • Category. building
  • Township. Fairfield township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 06001333 - 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of George B. and Amanda Bradish Horton Farmstead between 1996 and 2019, burning about 7 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
14 August 1996Debris and open burning2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000052 - 2019
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000044 - 2019
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMORENCI FD 0000066 - 2019
22 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000666 - 2019
3 February 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000014 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 George B. and Amanda Bradish Horton Farmstead: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Adrian Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Packard Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Ruff's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Stamm Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee 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 06001333 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee CountyAll 45 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.