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One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
United States Post Office Plymouth Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
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. 860 Penniman Avenue, Plymouth, 48170
- When was it listed? July 2024
- Category. building
- City. Plymouth city
- National Register reference number. 100010627 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
40 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of United States Post Office Plymouth Station between 2010 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0002021 - 2019 |
| 2 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANTON FD 0005396 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007106 - 2019 |
| 10 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019 |
| 5 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CANTON FD 0004628 - 2018 |
| 19 July 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006169 - 2019 |
| 19 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTHVILLE FD 0021362 - 2018 |
| 15 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0001614 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of United States Post Office Plymouth Station: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayes Washed S & G, Inc. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mijal Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Thomson Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plymouth, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Plymouth | 1 killed, 2 hurt | The tornado touched down just east of the intersection of Schoolcraft Rd and Eckles Rd and traveled northeast into Mason Rd, just north of I-96. The tornado continued into the intersection of Nola Rd and Lyndon Rd, uprooting large trees, snapping off large tree limbs, and producing some damage to residential housing. The tornado then traveled across Newburgh Rd into Levan Rd near the 5-mile intersection, close to the intersection of Ellen Dr. and 5-mile, where mainly tree damage was found. The tornado continued to travel northeast into Farmington and 6-mile, uprooting trees around this location. The tornado continued through Rotary Park where large trees and tree limbs were sheared off, and then moved into Beverly Park, where the damage was mainly sporadic downed tree limbs. The tornado lifted just southwest of 7 mile and Middlebelt Rd. Maximum wind speeds with this tornado were estimated to be up to 95 mph. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | $3,250,000 | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Plymouth | $250,000 | At 918 PM Saturday September 13th a tornado occurred in parts of Plymouth and Livonia in Wayne County. The Tornado path length was 2.6 miles and began just west of Starkweather Street near the railroad tracks in Plymouth and tracked eastward across the intersection of Interstates 96 and 275 and ended in Livonia at the intersection of Newburgh and Richfield Roads near Ladywood High School. The maximum path width of the tornado was roughly 200 yards in Plymouth and was 100 yards or less in most other locations along its path. Most of the damage along the path was to trees and was rated mostly at the EF0 level (less than 86 MPH). However, a short stretch of significant roof damage occurred in Plymouth to two apartment buildings in Lake Pointe Village and Brougham Manor. This damage was rated at the EF2 level, or roughly winds to 120 mph. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | $135,000 | no account filed |
| December 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | $35,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Large tree uprooted, but likely with shallow roots. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Wet mirco-burst winds downed trees in Plymouth. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Measured wind gust via MDOT mesonet. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Multiple trees uprooted with shingles blown off roofs. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Multiple trees were reported down, along with large tree limbs. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | A large tree was reported blown down. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Several large tree limbs were reported down. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Numerous trees and tree limb reported down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Trees were reported blown down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | A trained weather spotter reported small trees blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth | - | Spotters reported that several large tree branches were blown down in thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Plymouth | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Henry W. Baker House | 0.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Charles G. Curtiss Sr. House | 0.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Starkweather School | 0.7 miles | 2016 |
| Carlton D. Wall House | 2.1 miles | 1994 | |
 | Benjamin and Mary Ann Bradford House | 3.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Tivadar and Dorothy Balogh House | 3.4 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010627 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.