Jackson Branch Bridge No. 15

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Jackson Branch Bridge No. 15, also known as the Tecumseh Railroad Bridge due to its close proximity to the city of Tecumseh, is a historic railway deck truss bridge that spans the River Raisin in rural Raisin Charter Township in Lenawee County, Michigan. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2001.”
Wikipedia article Jackson Branch Bridge No. 15, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Lenawee County · listed in 2001 · 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. Southern Michigan RR over River Raisin, Raisin Township, 49221
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. structure
Township. Raisin township
Architect. Union Bridge Company
National Register reference number. 01000572 - 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 Jackson Branch Bridge No. 15 between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TECUMSEH FD 676 - 2020
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TECUMSEH FD 527 - 2020
23 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TECUMSEH FD 579 - 2020
23 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000326 - 2018
14 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000313 - 2019
12 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000306 - 2018
15 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PALMYRA TOWNSHIP FD 94 - 2019
8 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000075 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Jackson Branch Bridge No. 15: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Comfort Brick and Tile Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Adrian Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brady Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Burkett Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Irish Hills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Tecumseh Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lenawee 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
Raisin Valley Friends Meetinghouse	3.1 miles	1982
George J. Kempf House	4.0 miles	1986
Hall, Joseph E., House	4.1 miles	1986
Saint Elizabeth's Church	4.2 miles	1986
Tecumseh Downtown Historic District	4.2 miles	1986
Tecumseh Historic District (Boundary Increase)	4.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000572 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lenawee County	All 45 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.