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Photograph of Joseph Campau Historic District
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jos. Campau Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Joseph Campau Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Joseph Campau Street in Hamtramck, Michigan. The district runs from roughly Holbrook and Lehman Streets on the south to Pulaski and Casmere Streets on the north.”

Wikipedia article Joseph Campau Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Campau, Jos., Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Bounded by Holbrook, Pulaski, Casmere, & Lehman Sts., Hamtramck, 48212
  • When was it listed? October 2012
  • Category. district
  • City. Hamtramck city
  • National Register reference number. 12000870 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

167 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Jos. Campau Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 167 acres in total. 19 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
Debris and open burning77
Equipment and vehicle use46
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony8

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 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032107 - 2019
8 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033121 - 2018
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033020 - 2018
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031432 - 2019
28 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0035675 - 2018
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034689 - 2019
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034326 - 2019
23 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034275 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jos. Campau Historic District: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Graphite. 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
Cummings-Moore GraphiteGraphiteProducer
Mclouth Steel Gibralter Roll'G MillIronProducer
Stroble Primary Aluminum PlantAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamtramck, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHamtramck$1,000A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHamtramck-Large trees blown down, along with large branches.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHamtramck-A large tree limb was reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHamtramck-Metal fence and gate was partially blown over, along with power lines blown down.
July 1995HailHamtramck-A ham radio operater reported three-quarters inch hail.
July 2020HailHamtramck-no account filed
June 2020HailHamtramck-no account filed
May 2011HailHamtramck-no account filed
June 2002HailHamtramck-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. Florian Historic District0.3 miles1984
Hamtramck Stadium0.7 miles2012
Grandstands, Hamtramck Stadium0.7 miles2012
Arden Park-East Boston Historic District1.3 miles1982
Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament1.5 miles1982
Highland Heights-Stevens` Subdivision Historic District1.6 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000870 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 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.