Wadhams Road-Pine River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Wadhams Road-Pine River Bridge was a bridge carrying Wadhams Road over the Pine River in Saint Clair Township, Michigan. It was one of the few remaining multiple-span, curved-chord through girder bridges, a type unique to Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Wadhams Road-Pine 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. Wadhams Road--Pine River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Wadhams Rd. over Pine River, Saint Clair Township, 48079
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. St. Clair township
Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 00000014 - 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Wadhams Road-Pine River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 1 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	6
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
25 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MEMPHIS VFD 2019264 - 2019
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 485 - 2019
14 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HORSE FARM
28 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 512 - 2019
17 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KIMBALL TOWNSHIP FD 458 - 2018
1 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 434 - 2020
9 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 374 - 2020
28 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 355 - 2019

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Wadhams Road-Pine River Bridge: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Clay. 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
	Amcord Cement Co. Pit	Clay	Producer
	Diamond Crystal Salt Company	Salt	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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Clair Inn	4.8 miles	1995
	Indian Trail Road-Belle River Bridge	6.7 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000014 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.