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Photograph of Camp Tosebo
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Camp Tosebo

Built in 1912 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Camp Tosebo, on the south shore of Portage Lake in Onekama Township, Michigan, was established in 1912 by Noble Hill, the headmaster of the Todd Seminary for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, as one of the first summer camps in the United States. The name of the camp is an acronym derived from the school's name, TOdd SEminary for BOys, and meant to sound like a Native American Indian word.”

Wikipedia article Camp Tosebo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Manistee County · listed in 2000 · category: District · built in 1912, bungalow.

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

The listing

  • Address. 7228 Miller Rd. (Onekama Township), Red Park, 49660
  • When was it listed? December 2000
  • Category. district
  • Township. Onekama township
  • When was it built? 1912
  • Architectural style. bungalow
  • National Register reference number. 00000644 - 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

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Camp Tosebo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
5 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan AgencyLRBHOUSING
28 May 2012Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOLD NEST
22 May 2015Other causesunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFALK
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE FD 0018075 - 2018
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCOATS
14 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestASP
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestKERRY ROAD
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMOONRIDGE

Every fire recorded in Manistee 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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sandenburgh-Rogers Summer Resort Complex1.0 miles1996
Portage Point Inn Complex1.4 miles1985
Manistee County Courthouse Fountain2.1 miles1988
Orchard Beach State Park5.9 miles2009
Manistee Iron Works Machine Shop7.8 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000644 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manistee CountyAll 19 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.