Thornapple River Drive Bridge

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Thornapple River Drive Bridge is a road bridge in Cascade Township, Michigan, carrying Thornapple River Drive over the Thornapple River. It was listed on he National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article Thornapple River Drive Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 57 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1927.

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. Thornapple River Dr. over Thornapple River, Cascade Township, 49546
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. structure
Charter township. Cascade charter township
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 90000570 - 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

42 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Thornapple River Drive Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
20 July 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 1208 - 2018
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND RAPIDS FD 0011891 - 2018
12 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	KENTWOOD FD 02483 - 2019
8 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND RAPIDS FD 0010421 - 2019
24 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 1057 - 2018
17 June 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 893 - 2020
18 May 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP FD 816 - 2018
18 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ADA TOWNSHIP FD 0000246 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Thornapple River Drive Bridge: 8 producers, 3 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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	Recorded
Grand Rap Clay Prod Co Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Kentwood Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Kentwood Mine	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1999
Ponce De Leon Water Co Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Chadwick Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Great Lakes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Katz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mathews Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pickett and Schreur Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Ada Covered Bridge	0.9 miles	1970
Whitney Tavern Stand	5.1 miles	2007
Sisters of the Order of Saint Dominic Motherhouse Complex	6.7 miles	2022
John W. Blodgett Estate	6.8 miles	1983
Mathias. Alten House and Studio	7.2 miles	2009
Grand Rapids Storage and Van Company Building	7.4 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 57 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.