Photograph of Birch Lodge — Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Birch Lodge Hospital and Summer Resort Sanitarium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Birch Lodge, also known as the Birch Lodge Hospital and Summer Resort Sanitarium or the Trout Lake Sanitarium, is a resort facility located on the northern shore of Trout Lake, off County Route H-40, .6 miles (0.97 km) west of MI-123, in Trout Lake Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Birch Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Rt. H-40, .6 mi. W of MI 123, Trout Lake, 49793
When was it listed? November 1996
Category. building
Township. Trout Lake township
National Register reference number. 96001376 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Birch Lodge Hospital and Summer Resort Sanitarium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 256 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
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	1ITTY BITTY
23 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	not named
13 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CARP RIVER
29 June 2016	Natural	66 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	WILWIN FIRE
15 June 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	not named
19 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BREVORT TOWNSHIP FD 0000002 - 2020
11 May 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	H-40

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001376 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 26 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.