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Photograph of East River Road-North Hickory Canal Bridge
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge

Built in 1945. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The East River Road-North Hickory Canal Bridge is a bridge located on East River Road over the North Hickory Canal, connecting Grosse Ile, Michigan with Hickory Island to the south. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article East River Road-North Hickory Canal Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1945.

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. East River Road-- North Hickory Canal Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. E. River Rd. over N. Hickory Canal, Grosse Ile
  • When was it listed? February 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Grosse Ile township
  • When was it built? 1945
  • National Register reference number. 00000042 - 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

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge between 2010 and 2019, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000121 - 2018
14 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLAT ROCK FD 0000710 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000072 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000071 - 2018
31 March 2010Arson/incendiarism42 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAYNE 01
22 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGROSSE ILE TOWNSHIP FD 0000092 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Limestone, General. 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
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling MillIronProducer
Rockwood PlantSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rockwood Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.StoneProducer
E. Rockwood Glass Sand ExposureSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ottawa Silica Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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 00000042 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 396 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.