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Photograph of William Upton House
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William Upton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The William Upton House was built as a private residence located at 40433 Utica Road in Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1983.”

Wikipedia article William Upton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Macomb County · listed in 1986 · 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. Upton, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 40433 Utica Rd., Sterling Heights, 48313
  • When was it listed? July 1986
  • Category. building
  • City. Sterling Heights city
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86002113 - 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

61 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of William Upton House between 2018 and 2019, burning about 109 acres in total. 3 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 use39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
23 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0011757 - 2019
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0009868 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0009742 - 2019
30 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0010507 - 2018
15 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0009894 - 2018
1 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0009420 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0008320 - 2018
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0004123 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Macomb 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 Upton House: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fries Tile Works' Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Warren Brick Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sterling Heights, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSterling Heights1 hurt, $3,000,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSterling Heights-no account filed
July 1996HailSterling Heights-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macomb 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002113 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macomb CountyAll 15 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.