Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge

Built in 1947. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Ferry Street Bridge or Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge is a bridge located at Ferry Street over the Thorofare Canal in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1947.

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. Ferry Street--Thorofare Canal Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ferry St. over Thorofare Canal, Grosse Ile, 48138
When was it listed? February 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Grosse Ile township
When was it built? 1947
National Register reference number. 00000118 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	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
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHGATE FD 1902950 - 2019
28 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHGATE FD 0002537 - 2018
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WOODHAVEN FD 0000121 - 2018
30 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVERVIEW FD 201275 - 2020
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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ferry Street-Thorofare Canal Bridge: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling Mill	Iron	Producer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer
Sibley Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.	Stone	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
East River Road Historic District	1.1 miles	1974
St. James Episcopal Church	1.8 miles	1971
Parke Lane Road-Thorofare Canal Bridge	2.2 miles	2000
South Pointe Drive-Frenchman's Creek Bridge	2.6 miles	2000
East River Road- North Hickory Canal Bridge	2.9 miles	2000
Gibraltar Road-Waterway Canal Bridge	3.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000118 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.