Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“The Northville Historic District is located in Northville, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1970 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Northville Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1972 · category: District.
National Register reference number.72000673- 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 2010
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Northville Historic District
between 2010 and 2020, burning about 27 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/undetermined
14
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Northville Historic District: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Northville, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 flood, 5 flash flood.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Numerous roads and highways became impassable due to flooding. Four to eight inches of rainfall was reported in and around downtown Detroit, with Grosse Pointe Park reporting the highest total of 8.19 inches. Almost 15,000 homes suffered major flood damage, with close to 6000 homes experiencing minor flood damage across the northern part of county.
Numerous flooding reports across the Detroit Metro area. Severa flooding reports included parts of the freeway closed near Hamtramack, several roads across downtown Plymouth closed from flooding with vehicles stuck, multiple homes and cars flooded along Hanover St next to Ecorse River near the inersection of Barner St, several roads along 26 mile were completely flooded, homes and cars were flooded along Philomene Blvd, and Farmington also had soem roadways closed due to flooding.
Approximately 1 foot of standing water in Cherry Hill Village and in a neighborhood off Geddes Road. 6 Mile and Northville Rd impassable due to flood waters; cars getting stuck.
Heavy rain of 4-7 inches caused flooding across much of Western Wayne County. Areas in and around Detroit Metro Airport were particulary hard hit, with flooding limiting the acess to McNamara Terminal. Vehicles were stranded in several feet of water and parts of I-275 and I-94 were closed due to flooding. Numerous reports of roadway flooding in Canton Township, some of which required water rescues. Many businesses throughout Canton Township were damaged by flooding. Several inches of water covering residential street in Woodhaven. Flooding reported at Five Mile Rd and Northville Rd. Finally, after the 8/24 flooding, the Western Township Utilities Authority system could not keep up with the capacity and was forced to release partially treated effluent into the Lower Rouge River creating a public health issue.
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.
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.
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