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Photograph of Wisner House
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wisner House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Wisner House, also known as Pine Grove, is a single-family house located at 405 Cesar Chavez Avenue in Pontiac, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.”

Wikipedia article Wisner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 405 Oakland Ave., Pontiac, 48342
  • When was it listed? July 1970
  • Category. building
  • City. Pontiac city
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 70000284 - 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

28 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Wisner House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 29 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2

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 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003804 - 2019
26 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002228 - 2019
17 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0008643 - 2019
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0006862 - 2019
13 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003315 - 2019
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007257 - 2019
11 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007188 - 2019
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007004 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wisner House: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Mt Plant No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pontiac, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Flash FloodPontiac$125,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPontiac$45,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPontiac$16,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPontiac$10,000A few trees were reported blown down, which took down power lines.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPontiac$10,000A National Weather Service employee reported numerous large trees down throughout a subdivision near Waterford. A local newspaper confirmed reports of widespread trees down all across Waterford Township. A few homes received minor damages.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPontiac$5,000Trees limbs were downed, fencing destroyed, and windows of a home were damaged near Elizabeth Lake and Cooley Lake in Waterford.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPontiac-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2000HailPontiac-no account filed
July 2000HailPontiac-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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland CountyAll 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.