Milford Rural Agricultural School

Built in 1925 (Arts and Crafts movement). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Milford Rural Agricultural School was a school located at 630 Hickory Street in Milford, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, and demolished in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Milford Rural Agricultural School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1925, Arts and Crafts movement.

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.
Address. 630 Hickory St., Milford, 48381
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. building
Charter township. Milford charter township
When was it built? 1925
Architectural style. Arts and Crafts movement
National Register reference number. 91001995 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Milford Rural Agricultural School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 18579 - 2018
12 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 1996	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OAKLAND 0001
10 April 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	30 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 March 2020	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 20298 - 2020
27 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000209 - 2018
11 November 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OAKLAND 0002

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Milford Rural Agricultural School: 13 producers, 1 past producer. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Plant No 31 Pit	Silica	Producer
Fyke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Shore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Milford No 315 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Milford Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Molesworth Oakland County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Muir Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant No 30	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant No 30 Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Portable Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 1995	Hail	Milford	3 hurt	A severe thunderstorm brought nickle-size hail and frequent cloud to ground lightning to the Milford area in southwest Oakland County. Lightning resulted in three minor injuries.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Milford	$75,000	A weak tornado touched down near High Ridge Drive along the Kent Lake shoreline, in Kensington Metropark. There was a well-defined path of tree damage extending north-northwest to near the intersection of Pearson and Hickory Ridge Roads. A few structures were damaged, including a home struck by a falling tree, and a century-old barn was destroyed. An apartment complex lost gutters and shingles from its roof, and nearby playground equipment was thrown.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$50,000	Thirty trees were reported down.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$15,000	Trees and power lines were reported down.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$15,000	Pine trees reported down, along with siding off a house.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$10,000	Numerous trees and tree limbs reported down.
September 2000	Lightning	Milford	$10,000	The 911 phone system at the Milford Police Department was zapped by lightning, causing substantial damage to electronic equipment.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a power pole in Milford.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	A 12-15 inch diameter tree was blown down onto the road.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	A large tree was blown down on Milford road.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	A power pole was blown over, along with 3 inch diameter trees limbs down.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	A large pine tree was uprooted.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Numerous large tree limbs down.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Forty inch diameter tree uprooted.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Power lines and a few large limbs reported down.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Three trees were reported blown down.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	An amateur radio operator reported large tree branches down.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts at 60 MPH.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Spotters reported several six inch diameter tree limbs blown down in thunderstorm winds.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Large trees blown down in Kensington Metro Park.
March 2019	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Milford	-	no account filed
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	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
North Milford Village Historic District	0.2 miles	2000
Dr. Henry K. Foote House	0.6 miles	1985
Hubbard-Kesby House	2.8 miles	1996
Highland United Methodist Church	3.2 miles	1981
Rowe House	3.2 miles	1975
Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp	5.2 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001995 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.