Fort Custer Training Center

Fort Custer
Kalamazoo County, outside of Augusta, Michigan, 4 miles west of downtown Battle Creek.
184th Field Artillery at Ft. Custer (June 1941).
Coordinates	42°17′33″N 85°19′33″W / 42.29250°N 85.32583°W / 42.29250; -85.32583
Type	Army post
Site information
Controlled by	United States
Site history
Built	1917
In use	1917-present
Battles/wars	none
Garrison information
Past commanders	William H. Hay LTC Dennis Nadrasik
Garrison
Camp Custer Veterans Administration Hospital--United States Veterans Hospital No. 100
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	5500 Armstrong Rd., Battle Creek, Michigan
Area	206 acres (83 ha)
Built by	Construction Service-VA
Architect	Quartermaster Corps-US Army;
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Classical Revival
MPS	United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals MPS
NRHP reference No.	12000282[1]
Added to NRHP	May 17, 2012

Fort Custer Training Center, often known simply as Fort Custer, is a federally owned and state-operated Michigan Army National Guard training facility, but is also used by other branches of the armed forces and armed forces from Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. It is one of the most heavily used Midwest training facilities and is used mainly for company level small arms and maintenance training.

Fort Custer occupies land in both Kalamazoo County, Michigan, to the west and Calhoun County, Michigan, to the east. Most Fort facilities are located north or south of M-96 about four miles (6.4 km) west of Battle Creek, Michigan, in Calhoun County, and two miles (3.2 km) east of Augusta, Michigan, in Kalamazoo County. This locates the Fort about 14 miles (23 km) east of the town of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and mostly south of M-96, and divided east–west by the Kalamazoo and Calhoun county line that runs north and south.

The current Fort Custer Training Center is located south of M-96 and mostly east of the county line at 2501 26th St., Battle Creek, Michigan 49037. The Battle Creek VA Medical Center is located north of M-96 in northwest Calhoun County at 5500 Armstrong Rd., Battle Creek, Michigan 49037. Fort Custer National Cemetery is located north of M-96 in Kalamazoo County, about two miles east of Augusta, Michigan, at 15501 Dickman Rd., Augusta, Michigan Fort Custer Recreation Area is located on the south side of M-96 in Kalamazoo County, at 5163 Fort Custer Dr., Augusta, Michigan 49012.