Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment

Built in 1812. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment is a portion of Hull's Trace, a military road running from Urbana, Ohio, to Detroit. Hull's Trace was one of the first federal and military roads in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure · built in 1812.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 36000 W Jefferson Ave, Brownstown Township, 48173
When was it listed? December 2010
Category. structure
Charter township. Brownstown charter township
When was it built? 1812
National Register reference number. 10001022 - 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

13 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment between 2010 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	1

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
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019
24 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 -
18 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 -
16 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 -
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCKWOOD FD 0000146 - 2018
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 -

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ritter's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Rockwood Plant	Silica	Producer	Sedimentary
Rockwood Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer
South Rockwood Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
E. Rockwood Glass Sand Exposure	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ottawa Silica Quarry & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges	0.3 miles	2000
Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges	0.3 miles	2000
Gibraltar Road-Waterway Canal Bridge	3.5 miles	2000
South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge	4.4 miles	2000
East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge	4.7 miles	2000
East River Road Historic District	6.6 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10001022 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.