Chief Noonday Group Camp Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Chief Noonday Outdoor Center, also known as the Chief Noonday Group Camp Historic District, is a recreational facility located on Chief Noonday Road, approximately one mile east of Briggs Road in Yankee Springs Township. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Chief Noonday Outdoor Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Barry 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. E of Briggs Rd., approximately 1 mi. SE of jct. of Briggs Rd. and Bowens Mill Rd., Yankee Springs Township, Bowens Mill, 49333
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. district
Township. Yankee Springs township
National Register reference number. 96001481 - 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Chief Noonday Group Camp Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 were 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	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 07
13 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 06 - PAYNE LAKE RD.
10 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 Chief Noonday Group Camp Historic District: 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
	Bohn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Cole Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Barry 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

4 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
Long Lake Group Camp Historic District	1.6 miles	1996
Dwight, Austin H., and Frankie A., Summer House	4.0 miles	1985
John Carveth House	5.1 miles	1992
Michigan Central Railroad Middleville Depot	5.4 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001481 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barry County	All 9 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.