Brooks Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The William Brooks Farm, also known as the Washington Stanley Farm, is a farmsite located at 3521 Big Beaver Road in Troy, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Brooks Farm, 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 5 buildingss, 4 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3521 Big Beaver Rd., Troy, 48084
When was it listed? March 1972
Category. building
City. Troy city
National Register reference number. 72001594 - 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

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Brooks Farm between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
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
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROYAL OAK FD 0003739 - 2019
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON HEIGHTS FD 2397 - 2018
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
19 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON HEIGHTS FD 2617 - 2018
11 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BIRMINGHAM FD 0001383 - 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 Brooks Farm: 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

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 7 lightning. The reports record 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2006	Lightning	Troy	1 hurt, $15,000	One family member suffered minor injuries related directly to a lightning strike that created flying glass when the fireplace door exploded. There was no fire but the chimney was destroyed and the family room and kitchen were also damaged. Property damage was roughly estimated at $15K.
August 2003	Lightning	Troy	1 hurt	An 11 year old boy was struck by lightning on Garry Road. CPR was performed on the boy, who later recovered.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$35,000	no account filed
June 2006	Lightning	Troy	$30,000	Lightning struck a home, sparking a full blown fire. The fire consumed the attached garage of the tri-level home and extended into the attic. Property damage was roughly estimated at $30K based on pictures included in the newspaper.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$10,000	Tree reported blown down onto a house.
August 2001	Lightning	Troy	$10,000	Lightning struck the roof of an attached garage. Firefighters extinguished the fire and halted the spread into the main house.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$6,000	Trees were downed in a subdivision off of South Boulevard.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$5,000	Wires reported down.
May 1999	Lightning	Troy	$3,000	A lightning strike ignited a house fire in an attic.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	$1,000	About 6,000 people were without power after strong winds blew down power lines.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	One foot diameter tree reported blown down.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	Large tree blown down onto power line.
September 2005	Lightning	Troy	-	Lightning sparked a fire to a Regent's Park Apartment Complex. The roof was partially damaged.
May 2004	Lightning	Troy	-	Lightning stuck a home in the 300 block of Aspinwall. Fire officials found charred wood and burnt insulation in the home.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A trained spotter measure a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Trees were also reported blown down.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which resulted in a few large tree limbs down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	A 70 MPH thunderstorm wind gust was measured by a trained spotter.
May 2024	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Troy	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Troy	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Troy	-	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	0.8 miles	2000
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot	1.0 miles	1985
John W. Hunter House	1.7 miles	1972
John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House	2.1 miles	2008
Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House	2.3 miles	2011
Caswell House	2.4 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001594 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.