Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bald Mountain Recreation Area Entrance Dr. (Orion Township), Auburn Hills, 48360
When was it listed? September 2013
Category. district
Charter township. Orion charter township
National Register reference number. 13000670 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUBURN HILLS FD 0001651 - 2020
26 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORION TOWNSHIP FD 1555 - 2018
25 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004326 - 2019
12 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUBURN HILLS FD 0001629 - 2019
17 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORION TOWNSHIP FD 0000198 - 2019
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUBURN HILLS FD 0001198 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ajax Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bald Mt Plant No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nay and Gladstone Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House	2.8 miles	2002
William Edmund and Nina A. Downey Scripps Estate	3.0 miles	2007
Lake Orion Historic District	3.5 miles	2006
Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge	4.3 miles	2005
Meadow Brook Farms	4.6 miles	1979
Eli and Sidney Teeter Albertson House	5.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000670 in Record Group 79.
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.