Kolping Park and Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Kolping Park and Chapel is a religious facility previously located at 47440 Sugarbush Road in Chesterfield Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Kolping Park and Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Macomb County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 47440 Sugar Bush Rd., Mount Clemens, 48047
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. district
Township. Chesterfield township
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 96001417 - 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Kolping Park and Chapel between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	4

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
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BALTIMORE FD 0000743 - 2019
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008251 - 2019
7 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003200 - 2018
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003188 - 2018
29 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008764 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BALTIMORE FD 0000831 - 2019
16 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003300 - 2019
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0001811 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Macomb 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

3 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
Mount Clemens Public Library	4.9 miles	2021
Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Mount Clemens Station	5.3 miles	1981
Clinton Grove Cemetery	5.6 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001417 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macomb County	All 15 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.