Farmington Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Farmington Historic District is the town center of Farmington, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Farmington Historic District (Farmington, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Grand River Ave. and Shiawassee Ave. from Warner St. to jct., Farmington, 48335
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. district
City. Farmington city
National Register reference number. 76001034 - 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

26 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Farmington Historic District between 2010 and 2020, burning about 23 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 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
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018
2 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007405 - 2019
19 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006169 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 32 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
December 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	2 hurt, $60,000	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$1,500,000	Multiple trees blown down, blocking roadways. Trees blown down with property damage across parts of Farmington. The City of Farmington estimates property damage close to 1.5 million.
July 1997	Lightning	Farmington	$750,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Farmington	$50,000	Wires reported down across Interstate 696.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$20,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$15,000	The local newspaper reported 15 live wires and 5 trees down throughout the city of Farmington. A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$15,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$13,000	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Farmington	$10,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$5,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	North Farmington	$1,000	Large tree reported down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	$1,000	Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Trees and power lines reported down across Farmington.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A gas station awning collapsed from the wind.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A 6 inch diameter tree was reported blown down.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Multiple large tree limbs observed down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	North Farmington	-	Large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Large tree was reported blown down.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Billboard reported blown down.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Farmington	-	A large tree was reported down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A two foot diameter tree was blown down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Farmington	-	Trees reported down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Trees reported blown down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Several large tree limbs blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Tree limbs, up to four inch in diameter, were reported down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A National Weather Service employee reported large tree branches down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A local television meteorologist reported tree limbs down.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	A trained spotter reported trees blown down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Trained spotters reported 10 inch diameter tree limbs blown down at Thirteen Mile and Middlebelt Roads in Farmington Hills.
May 2018	Hail	Farmington	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	North Farmington	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Farmington	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Farmington	-	no account filed
October 2008	Hail	Farmington	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Farmington	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Farmington	-	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
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Farmington	0.3 miles	2014
Botsford-Graser House	0.5 miles	2002
Royal Aldrich House	1.7 miles	1994
Botsford Inn	3.2 miles	1979
John Grace School	3.7 miles	2023
Joseph D. Yerkes House	4.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001034 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.
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.