Malcolm X House

Built in 1950 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The Malcolm X House, also known as the Wilfred and Ruth Little House, is a private house located at 4336 Williams Street in Inkster, Michigan. It is significant for its association with African American Human Rights defender and Civil Rights leader Malcolm X, who lived here with his brother Wilfred Little in 1952-53.”
Wikipedia article Malcolm X House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2021 · category: Building · built in 1950, modern architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 4336 Williams St., Inkster, 48141
When was it listed? November 2021
Category. building
City. Inkster city
When was it built? 1950
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 100007205 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

50 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Malcolm X House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 54 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 use	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	4

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 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	INKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
24 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
15 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WESTLAND FD 196253 - 2019
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAYLOR 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 Malcolm X House: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cadillac Sands Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Ford Clay Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inkster, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	$20,000	no account filed
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	Uprooted trees reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	Trees reported blown down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	Trees reported down.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	A spotter estimated 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	A 24 inch diameter tree was reported snapped in half.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	A 10 inch diameter tree was reported down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	A trained spotter reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2009	Flash Flood	Inkster	-	A foot of water covered several roads.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	Trees fell down on a house.
July 2016	Hail	Inkster	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Inkster	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Inkster	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Inkster	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Annapolis Park Historic District	1.1 miles	2006
Norwayne Historic District	2.8 miles	2013
Henry Ford Square House	3.6 miles	1980
Commandant's Quarters	4.1 miles	1970
Dearborn Country Club	4.3 miles	2025
Dearborn Inn and Colonial Homes	4.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007205 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 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.