Franklin Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1969 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Fourteen Mile Rd., the Franklin River, Romany Wy., and Franklin Rd., Franklin, 48025
When was it listed? February 1969
Category. district
Township. Southfield township
National Register reference number. 69000070 - 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2

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
6 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
9 August 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
13 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008978 - 2018
11 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018
27 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008511 - 2019
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Daniels Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	A 5 inch diameter tree limb was observed down.
August 2019	Flood	Franklin	-	Flood waters took several hours to recede.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Several trees reported down.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Franklin	-	Numerous 4 to 8 inch diameter tree branches reported down.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Franklin	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Franklin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Franklin Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	2005
Elijah Bull House	1.6 miles	2022
Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith House	3.0 miles	1997
Royal Aldrich House	4.0 miles	1994
Cranbrook House	4.1 miles	1973
John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House	4.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000070 in Record Group 79.
Oakland 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.
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.