Photograph of Crystal Springs Street-Dowagiac River Bridge — Photograph by Charles W. Chapman, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

M-86-Prarie River Bridge

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Crystal Springs Street-Dowagiac River Bridge is a road bridge that carries Crystal Springs Street over the Dowagiac River near Sumnerville, Michigan. It was installed in that location in 2017.”
Wikipedia article Crystal Springs Street-Dowagiac River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for St. Joseph County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1923.

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. M-86--Prarie River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. M-86 over Prairie R., Nottawa, 49091
When was it listed? February 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Nottawa township
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 00000044 - 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of M-86-Prarie River Bridge in 2019, burning about 4 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 use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000264 - 2019
2 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000100 - 2019
30 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000398 - 2019

Every fire recorded in St. Joseph 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 M-86-Prarie River Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Cole Brothers Contractors Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Wiggins Kent County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nottawa, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nottawa	-	Large tree down on M-86 and Nottawa Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nottawa	-	A trained spotter reported multiple eight inch diameter tree limbs down at Nottawa Road and M-86.

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Nottawa Stone School	2.1 miles	1972
St. Joseph County Courthouse	2.4 miles	1993
Clapp, Leverett A. and Amanda (Hampson), House	2.5 miles	2009
Marantette Bridge	5.7 miles	2001
Marantette House	5.8 miles	1973
Farrand Hall	7.4 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000044 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Joseph County	All 17 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.