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Photograph of William Carmer House
Photograph by Mathew Lampe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William Carmer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The William Carmer House is a single-family home located at 10448 Washburn Road in Ortonville, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article William Carmer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Genesee County · listed in 1982 · 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. Carmer, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 10448 Washburn Rd., Ortonville, 48433
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Genesee County MRA
  • Charter township. Flint charter township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82000504 - 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of William Carmer House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 44 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 use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0015716 - 2019
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0003256 - 2018
14 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1800497 - 2018
10 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1900566 - 2019
6 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0002625 - 2018
20 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0002876 - 2018
19 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1800436 - 2018
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0002748 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of William Carmer House: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Neuman Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Saginaw Clay Products Co Shale PitClayPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
House at 5556 Flushing Roadunder 500 feet1982
Daniel O'Sullivan House/Halfway House0.9 miles1982
Robert Aitkan Farm House1.9 miles1982
Civic Park Historic District3.6 miles1979
Calvin Coolidge Elementary School3.7 miles2018
H. Elmer Thayer House4.0 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000504 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Genesee CountyAll 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.