East River Road Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The East River Road Historic District is a historic district located along East River Road near the Grosse Ile Parkway in Grosse Ile, Michigan. The district is a small island community composed of eleven structures, including seven houses, two outbuildings, St.”
Wikipedia article East River Road Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. E. River Rd., Grosse Ile, 48138
When was it listed? August 1974
Category. district
Township. Grosse Ile township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
Architect. Gordon W. Lloyd
National Register reference number. 74001003 - 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of East River Road Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
28 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHGATE FD 0002537 - 2018
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000121 - 2018
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FLAT ROCK FD 0000710 - 2018
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000072 - 2018
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000071 - 2018
22 December 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GROSSE ILE TOWNSHIP FD 0000092 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East River Road Historic District: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling Mill	Iron	Producer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer
Sibley Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.	Stone	Producer

Every working 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
Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge	1.1 miles	2000
East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge	2.1 miles	2000
South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge	2.3 miles	2000
St. James Episcopal Church	2.5 miles	1971
Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge	2.9 miles	2000
Gibraltar Road-Waterway Canal Bridge	3.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001003 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.