Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge is a former railroad bridge which now carries a hiking/biking path over Indian Lake Road, just east of M-24 near Orion, Michigan. It is one of only a small number of stone arch railroad bridges known to exist in Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 87 National Register listings published here for Oakland County · listed in 2005 · 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. Indian Lake Rd., E of M24, Orion, 48371
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. structure
Charter township. Oxford charter township
National Register reference number. 05000712 - 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge between 2018 and 2019, burning about 5 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	5

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
12 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OXFORD FD 181049 - 2018
23 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OXFORD FD 180758 - 2018
17 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORION TOWNSHIP FD 0000198 - 2019
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OXFORD FD 180632 - 2018
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADDISON TOWNSHIP FD 0000156 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Indian Lake Road Stone Arch Bridge: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Sibley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
American Aggregate Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Granger Road Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Pit No. 311	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Webers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland 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
Lake Orion Historic District	0.9 miles	2006
Oxford Downtown Historic District	2.1 miles	2019
William Edmund and Nina A. Downey Scripps Estate	3.6 miles	2007
Lower Trout Lake Bathhouse Complex and Contact Station	4.3 miles	2013
Axford-Coffin Farm	5.2 miles	2002
Walter P. and May Wolf Reuther House	5.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000712 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oakland County	All 87 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.