Gugel Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Gugel Bridge, also known as the Beyer Road - Cass River Bridge, is a bridge carrying Beyer Road over the Cass River in Frankenmuth Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Gugel Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Saginaw 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Beyer Rd. at the Cass R, Frankenmuth Township, 48734
When was it listed? March 2000
Category. structure
Township. Frankenmuth township
National Register reference number. 00000217 - 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Gugel Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	2

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 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 270 - 2018
3 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 623 - 2019
24 July 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 301 - 2019
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKENMUTH FD 73 - 2018
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 441 - 2018
6 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 432 - 2019
26 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 498 - 2018
23 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 459 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Saginaw 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
	State Street Bridge	5.7 miles	1995
	Morseville Bridge	7.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000217 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saginaw County	All 37 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.