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Photograph of Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge is a bridge located on Parke Lane Road over the Thorofare Canal in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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. Parke Lane Road--Thorofare Canal Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Parke Lane Rd. over Thorofare Ch., Grosse Ile, 48138
  • When was it listed? February 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Grosse Ile township
  • National Register reference number. 00000043 - 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 Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Debris and open burning2

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 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
13 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000568 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1902950 - 2019
28 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 0002537 - 2018
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000121 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Sibley Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.StoneProducer

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. James Episcopal Church0.4 miles1971
McKinley Elementary School2.1 miles2017
Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge2.2 miles2000
Wyandotte Odd Fellows Temple2.6 miles2009
First Congregational Church2.7 miles2023
Marx House2.7 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000043 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.