German Park Recreation Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Washtenaw County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 2 sitess, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 5549 Pontiac Trail, Northfield Township, 48105
When was it listed? November 2025
Category. building
Also known as. Historic and Architectural Resources of Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan MPS; Historic and Architectural Resources of Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan MPS
Township. Northfield township
National Register reference number. 100012313 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of German Park Recreation Club between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190379 - 2019
18 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SALEM TOWNSHIP FD 190403 - 2019
30 July 2018	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000445 - 2018
25 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SALEM TOWNSHIP FD 0000312 - 2018
12 July 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19652 - 2019
6 May 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR FD 0812958 - 2018
21 May 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 19476 - 2019
6 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000186 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw 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 German Park Recreation Club: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	O E Gooding & Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Washtenaw Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw 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
Leland, Joshua G. and Nancy (Bly), House	0.7 miles	2025
Nathan Esek and Sarah Emergene Sutton House	1.3 miles	2022
Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery	1.4 miles	2026
Groves Farm	1.4 miles	2023
Dixboro United Methodist Church	3.3 miles	1972
Bessert-Ryan House	3.3 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012313 in Record Group 79.
Washtenaw 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.