Waltz Road-Huron River Bridge

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Waltz Road-Huron River Bridge is an automobile bridge located on Waltz Road spanning the Huron River in Huron Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, but demolished in 2017.”
Wikipedia article Waltz Road-Huron 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 1924.

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. Waltz Road--Huron River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Waltz Rd. over Huron R., Huron Township, 48164
When was it listed? February 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Charter township. Huron charter township
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 00000081 - 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

44 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Waltz Road-Huron River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	10

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
24 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 589 - 2019
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191239 - 2019
1 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON TOWNSHIP FD 18930 - 2018
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019
4 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROMULUS FD 0003111 - 2019
29 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON TOWNSHIP FD 191142 - 2019
23 August 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON TOWNSHIP FD 18884 - 2018
22 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SUMPTER TOWNSHIP FD 566 - 2020

Every fire 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Marwood Apartments	4.3 miles	2019
	Saint Rita Apartments	4.5 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 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.