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Photograph of Ocqueoc Outdoor Center
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Camp Black Lake

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“Ocqueoc Outdoor Center, formerly known as Camp Black Lake, is a former Civilian Conservation Corps located at 7142 Ocqueoc Lake Road in Ocqueoc Township, Michigan. It is now used as a youth and adult outdoor education center.”

Wikipedia article Ocqueoc Outdoor Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Presque Isle County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 7142 Ocqueoc Lake Rd., Ocqueoc Township, 49759
  • When was it listed? April 2021
  • Category. district
  • Township. Ocqueoc township
  • National Register reference number. 100006365 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Camp Black Lake between 2001 and 2020, burning about 45 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
24 July 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 04
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 03 - GLASS MAKER
19 July 2018Debris and open burning2.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 02 - FECON
18 July 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 01 - AEROSOL
17 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 June 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 May 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 03 - RAIN FIRE

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Black Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Presque Isle 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

2 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
Onaway State Park6.6 miles2009
Ocqueoc Falls Highway-Ocqueoc River Bridge6.9 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100006365 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Presque Isle CountyAll 13 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.