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Photograph of Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges are two separate bridges, sharing a continuous railing, that were jointly listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 2000.”

Wikipedia article Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1930, by Michigan Department of Transportation.

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 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Jefferson Avenue--Huron River and Harbin Drive--Silver Creek Canal Bridges - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Jefferson Ave. over Huron R.; Harbin Dr. over Silver Creek Canal, Brownstone, 48179
  • When was it listed? February 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • When was it built? 1930
  • Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
  • National Register reference number. 00000080 - 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

13 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges between 2010 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 -
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 -
16 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 -
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000146 - 2018
27 April 2019Debris and open burning300 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 -

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 Jefferson Avenue-Huron River and Harbin Drive-Silver Creek Canal Bridges: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Ritter's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Rockwood PlantSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rockwood Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
South Rockwood Clay MineClayPast Producer
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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment0.3 miles2010
Gibraltar Road-Waterway Canal Bridge3.8 miles2000
South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge4.6 miles2000
East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge4.9 miles2000
East River Road Historic District6.8 miles1974
Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge7.2 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000080 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.