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One of 87 National Register listings published here for Washtenaw County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bessert-Ryan House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
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. 7441 Spencer Road, Northfield Township, 48178
- When was it listed? November 2025
- Category. building
- Also known as. Historic and Architectural Resources of Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan MPS; Historic and Architectural Resources of Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan MPS
- Township. Northfield township
- National Register reference number. 100012314 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
24 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Bessert-Ryan House between 2009 and 2020, burning about 38 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190379 - 2019 |
| 3 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WASHTENAW 01 |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19906 - 2019 |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000485 - 2019 |
| 30 July 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000445 - 2018 |
| 25 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000312 - 2018 |
| 17 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000915 - 2018 |
| 12 July 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19652 - 2019 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bessert-Ryan House: 2 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livingston County Road Comm. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Washtenaw Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Groves Farm | 2.1 miles | 2023 |
| Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery | 2.4 miles | 2026 | |
 | Leland, Joshua G. and Nancy (Bly), House | 2.6 miles | 2025 |
 | St. Patrick's Parish Complex | 2.6 miles | 1982 |
 | Nathan B. Devereaux Octagon House | 2.9 miles | 2003 |
 | Nathan Esek and Sarah Emergene Sutton House | 3.3 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012314 in Record Group 79. |
| Washtenaw County | All 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.