Greenmead Farms

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Greenmead Historical Park, also known as Greenmead Farms, is a 3.2-acre (1.3 ha) historic park located at 38125 Base Line Rd., Livonia, Michigan. It includes the 1841 Greek Revival Simmons House, six other structures contributing to the historic nature of the property, and additional buildings moved from other locations.”
Wikipedia article Greenmead Farms, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 38125 Base Line Rd., Livonia, 48167
When was it listed? March 1972
Category. building
Township. Northville township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 72000672 - 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

32 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Greenmead Farms between 2010 and 2020, burning about 30 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/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Smoking	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
11 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOVI FD 0004815 - 2019
31 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOVI FD 0005330 - 2019
30 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0002021 - 2019
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007106 - 2019
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019
19 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006169 - 2019
19 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTHVILLE FD 0021362 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Greenmead Farms: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hayes Washed S & G, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Thomson Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livonia, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	$2,000,000	no account filed
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	$550,000	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	$30,000	Winds knocked down trees with some blocking roadways. Winds also knocked out power for 700 customers in the city of Plymouth.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	$12,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	$5,000	Law enforcement reported that several large trees and power lines were blown down. Two large trees were also uprooted and damaged some of the fence around the Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	$5,000	no account filed
June 1998	Lightning	Livonia	$2,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Large trees uprooted.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	A trained spotter reported a tree 2 feet in diameter down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	A trained spotter reported large tree branches down and estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Trained spotters reported a three foot tree blown down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Off Duty NWS employee reported two eight inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	A trained spotter reported trees blown down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Law enforcement reported several large trees blown down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Several large tree limbs blown down.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	Skywarn spotters reported 60 mph winds in the City of Livonia.
April 2000	Flood	Livonia	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Livonia	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Livonia	-	no account filed
July 1997	Flash Flood	Livonia	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Livonia	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Livonia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Orson Everitt House	1.4 miles	1980
Ford Valve Plant	1.4 miles	1995
Northville Historic District	1.7 miles	1972
Starkweather School	4.2 miles	2016
Charles G. Curtiss Sr. House	4.6 miles	1993
Henry W. Baker House	4.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000672 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 396 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.