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Photograph of Groves Farm
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Groves Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

“Groves Farm is a farmstead located at 6015 Sutton Road in Northfield Township, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.”

Wikipedia article Groves Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Washtenaw 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 5 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6015 Sutton Road, Northfield Township, 48105
  • When was it listed? December 2023
  • Category. building
  • Township. Northfield township
  • National Register reference number. 100009651 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Groves Farm between 2009 and 2020, burning about 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190379 - 2019
3 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHTENAW 01
30 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000445 - 2018
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000312 - 2018
12 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19652 - 2019
6 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR FD 0812958 - 2018
21 May 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19476 - 2019
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000186 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw 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 Groves Farm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Washtenaw Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw 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 100009651 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washtenaw 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.