Lathrup Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Lathrup Village Historic District is a residential historic district located in Lathrup Village, Michigan and roughly bounded by city limit, Red River Drive, I-696, Middlesex Avenue, Meadowbrook Way, and Margate Avenue. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article Lathrup Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by city limit, Red River Dr., I-696, Middlesex Ave., Meadowbrook Way, and Margate Ave., Lathrup Village, 48076
When was it listed? March 1998
Category. district
City. Lathrup Village city
National Register reference number. 98000150 - 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

47 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Lathrup Village Historic District between 2018 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 2 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	24
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
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
25 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034521 - 2019
31 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0009725 - 2018
30 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0031891 - 2018
3 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028400 - 2018
29 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0030773 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Lathrup Village Historic District: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Beardsley Bros.Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Daniels Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past 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
Plumbrooke Estates	2.4 miles	2019
Northland Gardens	3.2 miles	2020
John W. Hunter House	3.8 miles	1972
Detroit Zoological Park	3.8 miles	1990
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Birmingham Depot	4.1 miles	1985
Pleasant Ridge Historic District (Boundary Increase)	4.1 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000150 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.