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Photograph of Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River Bridge
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River

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

From the record

“The Lilley Road - Lower Rouge River Bridge was an automotive bridge located on Lilley Road over the Lower River Rouge in Canton, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, but demolished in 2019.”

Wikipedia article Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne 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. Lilley Road--Lower Rouge River - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Lilley Rd. over Lower Rouge R., Canton Township, 48188
  • When was it listed? February 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Charter township. Canton charter township
  • When was it built? 1923
  • National Register reference number. 00000078 - 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

33 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River between 2018 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0006436 - 2019
8 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVILLE FD 250 - 2020
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005507 - 2019
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003111 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005396 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 0001177 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lilley Road-Lower Rouge River: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Redman Pit and 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sheldon Inn1.0 miles2000
George and Mary Pine Smith House1.0 miles2000
John and Edna Trusdell Fischer Farmstead1.2 miles2000
Ephraim and Emma Woodworth Truesdell House1.4 miles2003
David and Elizabeth Bell Boldman House1.5 miles2000
Phillip and Maria Hasselbach Dingledey House2.6 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000078 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.