Bird/Boyd Farm House

Built in 1846. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Bird/Boyd Farm House is a single-family home located at 14215 Bird Road in Byron, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Bird/Boyd Farm House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1846.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 14215 Bird Rd., Byron, 48418
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Genesee County MRA
Township. Argentine township
When was it built? 1846
National Register reference number. 82000500 - 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Bird/Boyd Farm House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 38 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
18 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000058 - 2019
30 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	VERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000043 - 2019
13 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000209 - 2018
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOWELL AREA FD 0000467 - 2018
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUNDY TOWNSHIP FD 2019098 - 2019
7 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000122 - 2019
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000152 - 2018
24 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000104 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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 Bird/Boyd Farm House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Fred Mccann Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee 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
Isaac R. Middlesworth Farm House	0.2 miles	1982
William Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm House	2.7 miles	1982
Genesee Avenue-Walker Street Historic District	3.2 miles	1983
James H. Murray House	4.5 miles	1982
House at 7066 Lobdell Road	5.3 miles	1982
Linden Mill	6.0 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000500 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee County	All 73 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.