West Mitchell Street Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The West Mitchell Street Bridge is a bridge carrying West Mitchell Street and US Highway 31 (US 31) over the Bear River in Petoskey, Michigan. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article West Mitchell Street Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Emmet County · listed in 1986 · 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. W. Mitchell St. at Bear River, Petoskey, 49770
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. structure
Also known as. Petoskey MRA
City. Petoskey city
Architectural style. Streamline Moderne
Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 86002085 - 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of West Mitchell Street Bridge between 1996 and 2020, burning about 20 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	10
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	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 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR CREEK RESORT FD 0000253 - 2019
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR CREEK RESORT FD 0000217 - 2019
24 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR CREEK RESORT FD 0000239 - 2019
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PETOSKEY DPS-FIRE DIVISION 0000369 - 2020
4 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARBOR SPRINGS AREA FD 2018106 - 2018
21 June 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PETOSKEY DPS-FIRE DIVISION 0000345 - 2019
5 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of West Mitchell Street Bridge: 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone. 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
Penn Dixie Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Petoskey Shale Mine & Mill	Clay	Past Producer
Backus Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bell Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kegomic Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Koboski Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kuchnicki Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Noggel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Petoskey Crushed Stone Co.Ls.Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
W.E.Smith Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this property

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petoskey, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 waterspout, 1 lightning. 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
June 1998	Hail	Petoskey	$100,000	Large hail up to 2.50" in diameter caused $100,000 worth of damage to cars on two lots west of Petoskey.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	$51,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Several homes and cottages were damaged by falling trees near Crooked and Pickerel Lakes, and a small aluminum boat was tossed into a tree. At a dealership in Petoskey, trailers were rolled off of a parking lot and into a ditch.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	$25,000	Numerous trees were downed from downtown Petoskey to the M-119/US-31 intersection. A restaurant at that intersection was damaged by a falling tree.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	$22,000	Many trees and power lines were downed, from the east end of Little Traverse Bay, extending inland a few miles. One car was crushed by a falling tree. A woman at Petoskey State Park was briefly trapped inside a motorhome.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	$15,000	A few trees and numerous tree limbs were downed. A car at the Petoskey post office was damaged by a falling tree.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	$15,000	Numerous large tree limbs blown down. One large limb fell on house causing roof and chimney damage.
May 2011	Lightning	Petoskey	$4,000	Lightning struck a home, igniting a small roof fire that was brought under control within an hour.
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	-	Two trees down.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	-	Trees down.
August 1999	Waterspout	Petoskey	-	Unseasonably cold air over the warmer waters of Lake Michigan triggered numerous cold air funnel clouds over Little Traverse Bay; three of which developed into waterspouts.
June 2005	Hail	Petoskey	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Petoskey	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Petoskey	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Petoskey	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Petoskey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Frank Schapler House	under 500 feet	1986
Mineral Well Park	under 500 feet	1987
J. M. Wells House	0.1 miles	1986
Isaac Bartram House	0.1 miles	1986
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Station	0.1 miles	1970
Petoskey Public Works Utility Building	0.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002085 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet County	All 49 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.