South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge is a bridge located on South Pointe Drive over Frenchman's Creek in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. South Pointe Drive--Frenchman's Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. South Pointe Dr. over Frenchman's Creek, 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. 00000117 - 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

15 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge between 2010 and 2019, burning about 56 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019
8 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
24 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000121 - 2018
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000107 - 2018
14 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FLAT ROCK FD 0000710 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge: 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling Mill	Iron	Producer
Rockwood Plant	Silica	Producer	Sedimentary
Sibley Quarry Rockwood Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.	Stone	Producer
E. Rockwood Glass Sand Exposure	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ottawa Silica Quarry & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rockwood Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sibley Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gibraltar Road-Waterway Canal Bridge	1.1 miles	2000
East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge	1.2 miles	2000
East River Road Historic District	2.3 miles	1974
Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge	2.6 miles	2000
Hull's Trace North Huron River Corduroy Segment	4.4 miles	2010
St. James Episcopal Church	4.4 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000117 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.
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.