Nathaniel S. Wheeler House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Wheeler House is a private residence located at 7075 M-50 just north of the village of Onsted in rural Cambridge Township in Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on July 26, 1974, and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1975.”
Wikipedia article Nathaniel S. Wheeler House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee County · listed in 1975 · 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. Wheeler, Nathaniel S., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Onsted at 7075 M-50, Onsted, 49265
When was it listed? February 1975
Category. building
Township. Cambridge township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75000953 - 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

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Nathaniel S. Wheeler House between 2006 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 8 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	8
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
20 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
27 August 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 626 - 2020
26 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
24 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 309 - 2019
12 May 2020	Natural	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CAMBRIDGE FD 298 - 2020
9 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000233 - 2019
5 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLINTON FD 090 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lenawee 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 Nathaniel S. Wheeler House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
	Gallop Pit No. 4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onsted, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	$40,000	Numerous trees and power lines down in Cambridge Township. A home also sustained roof damage.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	$20,000	Trees reported down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	$20,000	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	$8,000	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	$5,000	Law enforcement reported a tree blown down on a vacant trailer.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	$1,000	A trained spotter reported power lines down.
September 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	Numerous trees were reported down in and around Onsted.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	Five trees were reported blown down across Cambridge Township.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	A trained spotter reported trees down.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	A trained weather spotter reported trees blown down.
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	A trained weather spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	Several large trees were uprooted.
July 1995	Hail	Onsted	-	A ham radio operater reported that one-inch diameter hail fell for 15 minutes.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Onsted	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Onsted	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Onsted	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Onsted	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Onsted	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
John W. and Erena Alexander Rogers Keeney Farm	2.4 miles	2001
Irish Hills Towers	2.8 miles	2007
Saint Joseph Church and Shrine	3.0 miles	2007
Davenport Hotel	3.3 miles	2007
Saint Michael and All Angels' Episcopal Church and Cambridge Township Cemetery	5.0 miles	2004
S. Walker's Hotel	5.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000953 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee County	All 45 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.