Photograph of Michigan Military Academy — Photograph by Gsgeorge, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Orchard Lake Schools Historic District

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Michigan Military Academy, also known as M.M.A., was an all-boys military prep school in Orchard Lake Village, Oakland County, Michigan. Sumner Rogers and closed in 1908 due to bankruptcy.”
Wikipedia article Michigan Military Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1982 · category: District · built in 1877.

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

The listing

Address. Indian Trail, Orchard Lake, 48324
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. district
City. Orchard Lake Village city
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 82002859 - 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Orchard Lake Schools Historic District between 2018 and 2019, burning about 19 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
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
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003804 - 2019
17 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0008643 - 2019
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019
13 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191747 - 2019
13 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003315 - 2019
11 July 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007188 - 2019
8 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0004334 - 2019
24 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004124 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Orchard Lake Schools Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Apple Island Historic Archaeological Site	0.8 miles	2018
Casa del Rey Apartments	3.6 miles	1989
Elmer R. Webster School	3.6 miles	2022
Gillespie Street-Clinton River Bridge	3.8 miles	2000
Franklin Boulevard Historic District	4.0 miles	1983
Myrick-Palmer House	4.1 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002859 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland County	All 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.