Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot is a former railroad train station located at 245 South Eton Street in Birmingham, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Grand Trunk Western Railroad Depot (Birmingham, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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. 245 S. Eton St., Birmingham, 48009
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
City. Birmingham city
National Register reference number. 85002148 - 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

33 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot between 2018 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
25 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BERKLEY DPS 0010750 - 2019
21 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0009445 - 2019
13 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008978 - 2018
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROYAL OAK FD 0003739 - 2019
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON HEIGHTS FD 2397 - 2018
27 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008511 - 2019
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TROY FD 0002242 - 2018
19 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON HEIGHTS FD 2617 - 2018

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 Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot: 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
	Daniels Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birmingham, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	$150,000	Trees and limbs reported down.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Large tree uprooted and fell onto road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Tree reported down on the road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Tree reported down on the road.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Numerous large tree limbs reported down around Maple and Cranbrook roads.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Birmingham	-	Large tree limbs reported down near Chestnut and Elm Streets.
April 2008	Hail	Birmingham	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Birmingham	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Birmingham	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Derby Street-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge	0.7 miles	2000
Brooks Farm	1.0 miles	1972
John W. Hunter House	1.2 miles	1972
John & Mary Elizabeth Booth Endicott House	2.2 miles	2008
Thomas W. and Margaret Taliaferro House	2.7 miles	2011
Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge	3.0 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002148 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.
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.