Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Detroit Finnish Cooperative Summer Camp Association is a camping facility located at 2524 Loon Lake Road in Wixom, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1997 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 2524 Loon Lake Rd., Wixom, 48393
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. district
City. Wixom city
National Register reference number. 06000723 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 108 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOVI FD 0004815 - 2019
7 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WALLED LAKE FD 0000573 - 2019
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 192011 - 2019
31 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOVI FD 0005330 - 2019
30 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WALLED LAKE FD 0000644 - 2019
4 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WIXOM FD 0000653 - 2020
26 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191895 - 2019
2 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NOVI FD 0003788 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp: 8 producers. All of them 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
Grand River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Levy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Molesworth Oakland County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Portable Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rose Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sleeth Rd Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wixom, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	$2,000	no account filed
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	Two large pine trees uprooted.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	A small tree was reported snapped off.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	Two large trees blown down blocking road.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	A 3 foot diameter pine tree was reported down, snapped at the base.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which uprooted an 10 inch diameter tree.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	Large trees were reported blown down.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wixom	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew two trees over near the intersection of Interstate 96 and Wixom Road.
July 2005	Hail	Wixom	-	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
Kittie C. McCoy House	0.8 miles	2009
Andrews-Leggett House	3.5 miles	1987
Dr. Henry K. Foote House	5.0 miles	1985
North Milford Village Historic District	5.0 miles	2000
Milford Rural Agricultural School	5.2 miles	1992
Jacob and Rebecca Fuerst Farmstead	5.8 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000723 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.