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Photograph of Sashabaw Presbyterian Church
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Sashabaw Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Sashabaw Presbyterian Church is a historic church located at 5331 Maybee Road near Clarkston, Michigan. The church is one of the oldest in the Detroit Presbytery and has served congregations for nearly 150 years.”

Wikipedia article Sashabaw Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1980 · 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.
  • Address. NE of Clarkston at 5331 Maybee Rd., Clarkston, 48346
  • When was it listed? October 1980
  • Category. building
  • Charter township. Independence charter township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80001885 - 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Sashabaw Presbyterian Church between 2018 and 2019, burning about 23 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0010100 - 2019
20 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002520 - 2019
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002522 - 2019
26 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002228 - 2019
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0006862 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0001929 - 2019
26 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORION TOWNSHIP FD 1555 - 2018
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007257 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sashabaw Presbyterian Church: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sebewaing Limekiln MillLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Maceday Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waterford Sanitary Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClarkston$50,000Trees reported down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClarkston$35,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClarkston$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindClarkston$10,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindClarkston$6,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindClarkston$1,000Large tree limb and power line reported down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A large tree fell onto a home along Olde Sturbridge Trail.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClarkston-Trees reported down.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindClarkston-Large tree reported blown down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A couple of trees reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A 1.5 foot diameter tree was blown down across Waldon Road.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A four inch steel flag poll was snapped.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A National Weather Service employee reported trees down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A trained spotter reported a large section of a tree 1 foot in diameter down near the intersection of Sashabaw and Maybee Roads.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindClarkston-Several large limbs 4 to 6 inches in diameter were blown down by downburst winds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Large tree limbs were also reported down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A NWS employee and trained spotter reported numerous large tree limbs down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindClarkston-no account filed
June 2011HailClarkston-no account filed
July 2005HailClarkston-no account filed
June 2000HailClarkston-no account filed
May 2000HailClarkston-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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001885 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland CountyAll 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.