Alexander McClew Farm House

Built in 1880 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Alexander McClew Farm House is a single-family home located at 7115 Farrand Road in Millington, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Alexander McClew 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 1880, Italianate architecture.

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. McClew, Alexander, Farm House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7115 Farrand Rd., Millington, 48746
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Genesee County MRA
Township. Forest township
When was it built? 1880
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 82000524 - 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

22 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Alexander McClew Farm House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 425 - 2020
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 72 - 2020
26 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 87 - 2020
30 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 112 - 2019
19 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 63 - 2020
1 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FOREST TOWNSHIP FD 96 - 2019
4 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLIO AREA FD 0000093 - 2018
13 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLIO AREA FD 0000075 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alexander McClew Farm House: 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Genesee County Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kurtz Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Otisville Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sargent Sand Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stillman Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tuscola County Road Commission Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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

5 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
Parker and Dunstan Hardware/Dr. E. D. Lewis Building	3.3 miles	1982
E. S. Swayze Drugstore/Otisville Mason Lodge No. 401	3.3 miles	1982
Harry C. Tinker House	5.3 miles	1982
John Van Buskirk Farm House	7.2 miles	1983
House at 6112 Carpenter Road	7.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000524 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.