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Photograph of Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge
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Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge, also known as the Radike Mills Bridge, is a historic bridge that was originally constructed on Indian Trail Road, spanning the Belle River in China Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for St. Clair 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Indian Trail Road--Belle River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Indian Trail Rd. over Belle River, China Township, 48054
  • When was it listed? January 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. China township
  • National Register reference number. 00000012 - 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 485 - 2019
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 355 - 2019
20 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 257 - 2018
14 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 251 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 183 - 2019
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 232 - 2020
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 210 - 2019
28 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHMOND FD 0000106 - 2019

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge: 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Halite. 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
St. Clair Salt MineHaliteProducer1863, 1883
Shriner Brick Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
W.River Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ward-Holland House4.7 miles1972
Marine City City Hall4.8 miles1982
St. Clair Inn4.9 miles1995
Marine City Water Works5.0 miles2011
Wadhams Road-Pine River Bridge6.7 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000012 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Clair CountyAll 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.