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Detroit Zoological Park

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Detroit Zoo is a zoo located in the cities of Huntington Woods and Royal Oak in the U.S. state of Michigan. Spanning 125 acres (50.6 ha), it is home to more than 2,000 animals and more than 200 different species.”
Wikipedia article Detroit Zoo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1990 · category: District · built in 1928.

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

The listing

Address. 8450 W. Ten Mile Rd., Huntington Woods/Royal Oak, 48070
When was it listed? August 1990
Category. district
City. Huntington Woods city
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 90001226 - 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

80 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Detroit Zoological Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 9 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	25
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0032226 - 2019
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0032843 - 2018
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON HEIGHTS FD 3248 - 2018
3 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0031469 - 2019
3 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0031480 - 2019
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034689 - 2019
25 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034521 - 2019
21 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MADISON HEIGHTS FD 3451 - 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 Detroit Zoological Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
	Carmet Co--Madison Hgts, Mich.	Tungsten	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
Pleasant Ridge Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	2010
Pleasant Ridge Historic District	0.7 miles	1992
B and C Grocery Building	0.8 miles	2006
Pleasant Ridge East Historic District	0.8 miles	2007
Hilzinger Block	1.0 miles	2006
Northland Gardens	3.6 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001226 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.