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Photograph of Martin Road Bridge
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Martin Road Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Martin Road Bridge is a former road bridge which carried Martin Road across the Shiawassee River in Caledonia Township near Corunna. It was one of the oldest metal through truss highway bridges in Michigan, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”

Wikipedia article Martin Road Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Shiawassee County · listed in 1991 · 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. Martin Rd. across the Shiawassee R., Caledonia Township, Corunna, 48817
  • When was it listed? July 1991
  • Category. structure
  • Charter township. Caledonia charter township
  • National Register reference number. 91000876 - 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 Martin Road 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000054 - 2019
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000048 - 2018
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHIAWASSEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000029 - 2018
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCORUNNA-CALEDONIA FD 0000055 - 2019
25 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOWOSSO FD 180741 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Martin Road Bridge: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Michigan Brick Pit and MillClayProducer
Fuoss Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lennon Sand and Gravel Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New Corunna Brick Co Clay Shale PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
New Egy.And Aetna Port.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corunna, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998LightningCorunna$75,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCorunna$60,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCorunna$50,000Trees and power lines reported down across the county.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCorunna-Trees reported blown down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCorunna-A trained spotter reported sidings and shutters blown off.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCorunna-Law enforcement reported a large tree down on state road just north of M-21.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCorunna-Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCorunna-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCorunna-Spotters reported several trees and telephone poles blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCorunna-Several trees blown down.
March 2003HailCorunna-no account filed
January 1996HailCorunna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Shiawassee County Courthouse3.2 miles1982
Corunna High School3.3 miles2017
John N. Ingersoll House3.7 miles1980
Williams-Cole House4.3 miles1986
Durand High School5.1 miles2009
Grand Trunk Railway Station5.5 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000876 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shiawassee CountyAll 45 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.