Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge was a historic bridge carrying Vernier Street over Swan Creek in Ira Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for St. Clair County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1922, by Michigan Department of Transportation.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Vernier Street--Swan Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Vernier St. over Swan Cr., Ira Township, 48023
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Ira township
When was it built? 1922
Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 00000011 - 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

17 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 17 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
10 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 453 - 2018
25 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BALTIMORE FD 0000831 - 2019
8 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BALTIMORE FD 623 - 2019
24 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BALTIMORE FD 579 - 2019
14 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 302 - 2018
8 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 266 - 2019
5 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 261 - 2019
3 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRA TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2020

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vernier Street-Swan Creek Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Engleman's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Colony Tower Complex	4.3 miles	1994
Colony Tower Complex (Boundary Increase)	4.3 miles	1995
LeRoy Smith House	7.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000011 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Clair County	All 28 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.