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John Grace School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

“The John Grace School, also known as the District No. 9 Public School or the John Grace Park and Community Center, is a former school located at 21030 Indian Street in Southfield, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.”

Wikipedia article John Grace School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

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.
  • Listed as. Grace, John, School - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 21030 Indian St., Southfield, 48033
  • When was it listed? April 2023
  • Category. building
  • City. Southfield city
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 100008828 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

42 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of John Grace School between 2018 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 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 use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Smoking3

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 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
14 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032979 - 2019
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
4 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0027677 - 2019
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031002 - 2019
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0009725 - 2018
3 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028400 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John Grace School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beardsley Bros.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southfield, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 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
August 1998LightningSouthfield$125,000Lightning struck an apartment building, causing a fire that destroyed two units and damaged the administrative office.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSouthfield$10,000Large tree limbs were blown down, along with 4 houses suffering roof/shingle damage.
June 1999Flash FloodSouthfield$5,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-Large tree was blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-A spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-Dozen of large tree limbs reported down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-Three trees were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-A trained spotter reported power lines blown down.
May 2007HailSouthfield-no account filed
April 2003HailSouthfield-no account filed
April 2001HailSouthfield-no account filed
July 2001HailSouthfield-no account filed
August 2001HailSouthfield-no account filed
July 1999HailSouthfield-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSouthfield-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Botsford Inn0.6 miles1979
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Farmington3.4 miles2014
Plumbrooke Estates3.4 miles2019
Royal Aldrich House3.6 miles1994
Farmington Historic District3.7 miles1976
Botsford-Graser House4.1 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100008828 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.