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Photograph of William Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm House
Photograph by Matthew Lampe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The William Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm House is a single-family home located at 15237 McCaslin Lake Road in Linden, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article William Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm 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. McCaslin, William Henry and Lucinda, Farm House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 15237 McCaslin Lake Rd., Linden, 48451
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Genesee County MRA
  • Township. Argentine township
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82000523 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of William Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm House between 2006 and 2019, burning about 30 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000209 - 2018
12 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLINDEN CITY FD 0000132 - 2018
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000122 - 2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000152 - 2018
18 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000104 - 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 Henry and Lucinda McCaslin Farm House: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bentley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 20 thunderstorm wind, 8 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 WindLinden$30,000Trees and wires reported down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLinden$5,000Trees and wires reported blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLinden$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew a trailer several feet from its foundation, blew in a garage door, knocked several large trees over, destroyed a swing set, and blew some shingles off of roofs.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLinden$4,000Multiple trees were reported blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLinden$1,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLinden-A tree was blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLinden-Numerous trees reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLinden-Six to eight in diameter tree limbs down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindLinden-Trees and power lines reported down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLinden-Large tree limbs reported blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLinden-Trees reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter reported trees down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLinden-Law enforcement reported a large tree down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLinden-NWS employee reported a tree blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLinden-NWS Employee reported a tree blown down between Linden and Fenton.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLinden-Several large limbs were reported down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter reported numerous tree limbs blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter reported four inch diameter trees and power lines blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLinden-A NWS employee reported two large trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindLinden-Several large trees were blown down.
May 1994HailLinden-A supercell thunderstorm produced large hail in both southern Shiawassee and Southern Genesee Counties. In both Linden and Fenton of southern Genesee County, the hail fell for at least 10 minutes, causing serious damage to two fruit orchards in these communities. Damage was estimated at a minimum of $500,000, but this damage estimate was expected to increase due to spraying costs for disease prevention for the trees, and the fact that much of the damage will show only with time.
April 2014HailLinden-no account filed
June 2004HailLinden-no account filed
May 2003HailLinden-no account filed
May 2000HailLinden-no account filed
July 2000HailLinden-no account filed
June 1999HailLinden-no account filed
July 1996HailLinden-no account filed

Every storm 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
James H. Murray House2.1 miles1982
Isaac R. Middlesworth Farm House2.6 miles1982
House at 7066 Lobdell Road2.6 miles1982
Bird/Boyd Farm House2.7 miles1982
Bridge Street-Broad Street Historic District3.7 miles1982
Linden Mill3.8 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000523 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.
  • 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.