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Photograph of Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge was a bridge carrying Trowbridge Road over the Grand Trunk Western Railroad in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 and removed in 2023.”

Wikipedia article Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Trowbridge Road--Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Trowbridge Rd. over GTW Railroad, Bloomfield Hills, 48304
  • When was it listed? January 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • City. Bloomfield Hills city
  • National Register reference number. 00000010 - 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

26 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge between 2018 and 2019, burning about 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003804 - 2019
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTROY FD 0002242 - 2018
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003325 - 2019
13 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003315 - 2019
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRMINGHAM FD 0001383 - 2019
10 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007004 - 2018
1 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTROY FD 0001879 - 2019
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003097 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Trowbridge Road-Grand Trunk Western Railroad Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Daniels Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Underwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this property

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield Hills, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005LightningBloomfield Hills$300,000Lightning struck a house, resulting in a fire.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills$150,000Widespread trees down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills$30,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills$7,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-Three to four inch tree limb on power line.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-Large tree uprooted.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-Trees reported blown down.
July 2021Flash FloodBloomfield Hills-A quick 2.5 inches of rain in thunderstorms lead to flash flooding of the underpass at the intersection of Maple Road and South Easton Street. Flash flooding also blocked all lanes of traffic along southbound I-75 near 11 mile road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-A spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-Large tree limbs reported down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBloomfield Hills-A trained spotter reported large limbs down.
July 2014HailBloomfield Hills-no account filed
April 2010HailBloomfield Hills-no account filed
April 2008HailBloomfield Hills-no account filed
May 2004HailBloomfield Hills-no account filed
June 2003HailBloomfield Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000010 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland CountyAll 87 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.