BlockFrom the record
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Branch County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Capri Drive-In Theater
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 119 West Chicago Road, Batavia Township, 49036
- When was it listed? March 2024
- Category. district
- Township. Batavia township
- National Register reference number. 100010158 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Capri Drive-In Theater between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LAKELAND VFD 0018131 - 2018 |
| 27 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLDWATER FD 868 - 2020 |
| 19 July 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLDWATER FD 0000781 - 2018 |
| 13 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLDWATER FD 0000750 - 2018 |
| 6 May 2019 | Natural | 22 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLDWATER FD 487 - 2019 |
| 6 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLDWATER FD 375 - 2019 |
| 27 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LAKELAND VFD 0018071 - 2018 |
| 16 March 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | COLDWATER FD 0000265 - 2018 |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Capri Drive-In Theater: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Copper, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amax Specialty Metals-Coldwater, Mi | Molybdenum, Tungsten, Copper, Nickel | Producer | ||
| 47 Garfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Branch County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Certified Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Thompson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Waterbury No 1 Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Benedict Doll House | 1.7 miles | 1990 |
 | US-12-Coldwater River Bridge | 1.7 miles | 1999 |
 | West Pearl Street Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1990 |
 | South Monroe Street Historic District | 2.9 miles | 1990 |
 | Tibbits Opera House | 2.9 miles | 2019 |
 | Coldwater Downtown Historic District | 2.9 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010158 in Record Group 79. |
| Branch County | All 17 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.