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Photograph of Douglas House
Photograph by North Branch Outing Club, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Douglas House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Douglas House, also known as the Douglas Hotel or the North Branch Outing Club, is a sporting lodge located at 6122 East County Road 612 in Lovells Township, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 2000 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”

Wikipedia article Douglas House (Lovells Township, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6122 E Cty Rd. 612, Lovells Township, 49738
  • When was it listed? September 2001
  • Category. building
  • Township. Lovells township
  • National Register reference number. 01001017 - 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Douglas House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2002Fireworks17 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 12 - HIGH BANKS TRAIL
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOVELLS TOWNSHIP FD 0041850 - 2019
17 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 13 RANGE 44 FIRE
21 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRAWFORD 16
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOVELLS TOWNSHIP FD 0034779 - 2019
25 June 1995Natural10 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000014 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01001017 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford CountyAll 3 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.