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Photograph of Camp Arcadia
Photograph by Ctown09, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Walther League Camp-Camp Arcadia

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“Camp Arcadia is a Lutheran camp, owned and operated by the Lutheran Camp Association. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan in the small town of Arcadia, Michigan, Camp Arcadia has been in continuous operation since its opening in 1922.”

Wikipedia article Camp Arcadia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Manistee County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 3046 Oak St., Arcadia Township, 49613
  • When was it listed? April 2017
  • Category. district
  • Township. Arcadia township
  • National Register reference number. 100000884 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Walther League Camp-Camp Arcadia between 2005 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 June 2010Natural10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANISTEE 01
4 May 2005Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZIE #002
22 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZIE 01 - PUTNEY RD FIRE
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARCADIA TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0018012 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Manistee 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 Walther League Camp-Camp Arcadia: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Arcadian Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Klein's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100000884 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.
  • 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.