Grist Mill Bridge, Dam and Mill Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Grist Mill Bridge, Dam and Mill Site consists of three structures located along Upton Road between Island Road and the Maple River, one-half mile west of Elsie, Michigan in Duplain Township. The three structures are:Upton Road Bridge, the last known surviving metal truss highway bridge in Michigan built by Detroit Bridge & Iron Works, and one of only three remaining Parker truss bridges in Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Grist Mill Bridge, Dam and Mill Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Upton Rd. from Island Rd. to Maple R., Duplain Township, 48831
When was it listed? June 2015
Category. district
Township. Duplain township
National Register reference number. 15000295 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Grist Mill Bridge, Dam and Mill Site in 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ELSIE FD 1900050 - 2019
28 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ELSIE FD 1900025 - 2019
24 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ASHLEY VFD 0019040 - 2019
23 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ELSIE FD 1900024 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grist Mill Bridge, Dam and Mill Site: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clinton County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Martin Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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

1 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
	Main Street Building, United Church of Ovid	6.0 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000295 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 6 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.