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Photograph of Alonzo W. Olds House
Photograph by Victor Stankiewicz, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Alonzo W. Olds House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Olds House, also known as the Albert Read House, is a single family home located at 10084 Rushton Road in Rushton, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”

Wikipedia article Alonzo W. Olds House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Livingston County · listed in 1972 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Olds, Alonzo W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 10084 Rushton Rd., Rushton, 48178
  • When was it listed? May 1972
  • Category. building
  • Township. Green Oak township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 72000636 - 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Alonzo W. Olds House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution6.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHTENAW 01
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19906 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000485 - 2019
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000863 - 2018
28 July 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000968 - 2018
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000312 - 2018
17 July 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000915 - 2018
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGREEN OAK TOWNSHIP FD 0000897 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Alonzo W. Olds House: 5 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Aggregates Corp PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Oak Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Oaks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kent Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rushton, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRushton$3,000Power lines were reported blown down.
September 2017HailRushton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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

3 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
Bingham House2.8 miles1972
Timothy and Lucretia Jones Warner Homestead6.3 miles2011
Western House6.7 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000636 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Livingston CountyAll 14 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.