William Horton Farmhouse

Built in 1870 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The William Horton Farmhouse is a single family home located at 1647 West Miller Road near Morrice, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article William Horton Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Shiawassee County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1870, 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. Horton, William, Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1647 W. Miller Rd., Morrice, 48857
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Township. Perry township
When was it built? 1870
Architectural style. Italianate architecture
National Register reference number. 86000711 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of William Horton Farmhouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 72 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 use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	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
12 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OWOSSO TOWNSHIP FD 0000099 - 2018
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHIAWASSEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000052 - 2018
5 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000222 - 201
9 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LSW EMERGENCY SERVICES FIRE DIVISION 0000173 - 201
8 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PERRY AREA FIRE/RESCUE 0000049 - 2019
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PERRY AREA FIRE/RESCUE 0000042 - 2019
2 April 1994	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHIAWASSEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of William Horton Farmhouse: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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
Fisher Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fuoss Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Grand River Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand River Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Grand River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrice, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
September 2002	Lightning	Morrice	$75,000	Ligthning struck a barn and set it on fire. The barn was heavily damaged.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Morrice	$50,000	The tornado was rated EF0 with maximum winds to 75 mph. Path width was 100 yards and path length 1/2 mile. The tornado started at Bethemy Cemetary and moved northeast, ending at West Britton and Hidden Ridge Roads. Trees were uprooted and many tree limbs were downed.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrice	$50,000	A newspaper reported that several large trees and tree limbs were blown down in thunderstorm winds, some of which fell onto homes.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrice	$10,000	Two large maple trees were blown down, along with vinyl siding off a home and large shed flipped over.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrice	-	Large tree was snapped with damage to chimney caps, barn doors, and a swing set. Shingles were also ripped off the roof of a home.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrice	-	Numerous trees reported down.
May 2012	Flood	Morrice	-	Flash flooding from 4 to 7 inches of rain took half a day to recede.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrice	-	The emergency manager reported wind damage to a chimney and barn.
August 2003	Hail	Morrice	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrice	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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

3 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
Charles H. Calkins House	2.9 miles	1978
Hezekiah W. and Sarah E. Fishell Cobb House	2.9 miles	1997
Owosso Downtown Historic District	4.0 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000711 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shiawassee County	All 45 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.