Built in 1852 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“The Benjamin and Maria (Ogden) Drake Farm, also known as the Drake Farmstead, is a farmstead located at 927 North Drake Road in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, and as of 2021 is open to the public as the Drake Farmstead Park.”
Wikipedia article Drake Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1852, Victorian architecture.
National Register reference number.12001031- 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
40 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Drake, Benjamin and Maria (Ogden), Farm
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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
22
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
1
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Drake, Benjamin and Maria (Ogden), Farm: 3 producers, 1 past producer.
3 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Kalamazoo, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
At 1020 PM EDT Sunday, May 18, a wet microburst hit the Americana Estates mobile home park in western Kalamazoo, Michigan. The mobile home park is located one mile northeast of the U.S. Highway 131/Stadium Street (Business I-94) interchange. One injury (a broken wrist) was caused when a microburst approximately 150 yards long and 50 yards wide struck the park. The first damage was noted on Stadium Street at the Burger King and Lee's Restaurant. Two light poles were downed at a Burger King restaurant. The Lee's Restaurant sign was broken with large fragments of 1 to 2 feet driven into the front siding of the restaurant. Some shingles and siding were also blown off. To the northeast, about a dozen mobile homes were pushed off foundations or received major roof damage. Two homes were completely destroyed, one of which was tied down. In the tied down mobile home, the wind ripped off the upper portions of the home, leaving only debris and the flooring. Five people were in the home at the time of the incident, one of whom was a teenage male injured with a broken wrist. The second destroyed trailer was not tied down and the back half of the trailer was broken and twisted onto its side. Debris was blown over 1/4 mile away, where a 2X4 was embedded at a downward angle into the side of a home.
The public reported that numerous power lines and trees were blown down in Milwood and fairly extensive wind damage was reported across portions of Kalamazoo county. A 59 mph wind gust was measured at Kalamazoo airport.
National Weather Service spotters reported trees and power lines downed in portions of the city of Kalamazoo. The peak wind gust reported by a trained spotter was 47 mph in Galesburg.
Trained spotters in Kalamazoo reported that estimated wind gusts up to 65 mph brought down power lines three miles west southwest of Kalamazoo. A measured wind gust of 54 mph was recorded at the Kalamazoo airport.
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.
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.
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