John W. Hunter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Hunter House is a single-family house located at 556 W. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article John W. Hunter House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland 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. Hunter, John W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 556 W. Maple Rd., Birmingham, 48009
When was it listed? January 1972
Category. building
City. Birmingham city
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 72000648 - 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

29 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of John W. Hunter House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Natural	1

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
25 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERKLEY DPS 0010750 - 2019
21 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0009445 - 2019
13 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008978 - 2018
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROYAL OAK FD 0003739 - 2019
27 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008511 - 2019
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TROY FD 0002242 - 2018
14 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003325 - 2019

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 John W. Hunter House: 1 past producer. 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
	Daniels Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birmingham, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	$150,000	Trees and limbs reported down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Large tree uprooted and fell onto road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Tree reported down on the road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Tree reported down on the road.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Numerous large tree limbs reported down around Maple and Cranbrook roads.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Large tree limbs reported down near Chestnut and Elm Streets.
April 2008	Hail	Birmingham	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Birmingham	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Birmingham	-	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
Derby Street-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge	1.0 miles	2000
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot	1.2 miles	1985
John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House	1.3 miles	2008
Brooks Farm	1.7 miles	1972
Cranbrook House	2.1 miles	1973
Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House	2.1 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000648 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.