Upper Twin Falls Bridge

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Upper Twin Falls Bridge is a bridge that spans the Menominee River linking Breitung Township, Michigan, to Florence County, Wisconsin. Completed in 1910, construction was prompted by the erection of a dam downstream.”
Wikipedia article Upper Twin Falls Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Dickinson County · listed in 2012 · category: Structure · built in 1910.

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 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Upper Twin Falls Rd. over the Menominee R. (Breitung Township), Iron Mountain, 49801
When was it listed? December 2012
Category. structure
Charter township. Breitung charter township
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 12001028 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Upper Twin Falls Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 215 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 were 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
Debris and open burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Fireworks	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
21 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018
17 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	DYNAMITE FIRE
9 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DICKINSON 0003
8 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LIGHTING FIRE
2 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	IRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020
9 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LARSON'S BAY
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Upper Twin Falls Bridge: 16 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Caspian Const Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Florence County Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Francis Hazewood Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Leslie Larson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
M-35 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miller Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Moon Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ozzelos Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wisconsin Power Company Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron Mountain, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Hail	Iron Mountain	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Ardis Furnace	3.1 miles	1972
Immaculate Conception Church	3.3 miles	1990
Chapin Mine Steam Pump Engine	3.7 miles	1981
Iron Mountain Central Historic District	4.1 miles	2013
Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail	4.3 miles	1980
Iron Mountain Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital	4.8 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dickinson County	All 7 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.