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Photograph of Oxford Downtown Historic District
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Oxford Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

“The Oxford Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Washington Street/MI-24 at the intersection of Burdick Street in Oxford, Michigan, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.”

Wikipedia article Oxford Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Washington St./MI-24 and Burdick St., Oxford, 48371
  • When was it listed? July 2019
  • Category. district
  • Charter township. Oxford charter township
  • National Register reference number. 100004158 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oxford Downtown Historic District between 2018 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 use6
Smoking1

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
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000929 - 2019
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOXFORD FD 181049 - 2018
5 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000475 - 2018
23 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOXFORD FD 180758 - 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
13 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000156 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oxford Downtown Historic District: 6 producers. All of them 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

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2021Flash FloodOxford$3,400,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOxford$100,000Widespread trees down, with all trees in downtown Oxford damaged.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOxford$100,000Widespread trees down, with all trees in downtown Oxford damaged.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOxford$50,000A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOxford$35,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOxford$27,000no account filed
August 2003LightningOxford$15,000Lightning struck the Oxford Village Dispatch Center's 110-foot tower causing widespread equipment failure and damage.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindOxford$10,000Several one foot diameter tree limbs were blown down and a large tree was blown onto a house, causing some damage to the roof.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOxford$10,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOxford$5,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindOxford$2,000A large tree was uprooted which lead to downed power lines.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindOxford$1,000Power line down on building.
June 2009HailOxford$1,000Minor damage to vehicles reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOxford-Report of 6-8 inch trees limbs down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOxford-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds and pea size hail.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-Trees reported down.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindOxford-Tree damage reported.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindOxford-A fence was reported blown over.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOxford-Large trees were reported blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOxford-A local newspaper included a picture of a large 100 year old maple tree down in front of a home. The only damage was to some flowers.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOxford-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOxford-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
August 2003LightningOxford-Lightning struck an electrical pole on Metamora Road, causing a fire.
July 2023HailOxford-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed
June 2013HailOxford-no account filed
July 2012HailOxford-no account filed
June 2009HailOxford-no account filed
June 2009HailOxford-no account filed
June 2009HailOxford-no account filed
June 2008HailOxford-no account filed
July 2005LightningOxford-no account filed
May 2003HailOxford-no account filed
May 2003HailOxford-no account filed
June 1998HailOxford-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindOxford-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 100004158 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.