Ottawa Beach Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Ottawa Beach Historic District is a residential historic district located on Ottawa Beach Road in Park Township, Ottawa County, Michigan near the outlet of Lake Macatawa. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Ottawa Beach Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Ottawa Beach Rd., Park Township, Ottawa Beach, 49424
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. district
Township. Park township
National Register reference number. 95000451 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

17 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ottawa Beach Historic District between 2007 and 2019, burning about 24 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	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
16 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
7 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALLEGAN #8
4 July 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0001973 - 2018
18 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARK TOWNSHIP FD 0000140 - 2018
8 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARK TOWNSHIP FD 19187 - 2019
14 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARK TOWNSHIP FD 0000095 - 2018
11 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARK TOWNSHIP FD 0000090 - 2018
6 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOLLAND FD 0001314 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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
Holland Harbor Lighthouse	0.4 miles	1978
Lakewood Farm	2.0 miles	2020
Egbert H. Gold Estate	2.5 miles	1984
Washington Square Historic District	4.5 miles	2026
Isaac Cappon House	4.5 miles	1984
Thomas and Anna Morrissey House	4.6 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000451 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ottawa County	All 29 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.