Parshallburg Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Parshallburg Bridge, also known as the Ditch Road Bridge, was a bridge that originally carried Ditch Road over the Shiawassee River near Oakley, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Parshallburg Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Saginaw County · listed in 1994 · 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. Ditch Rd. over the Shiawassee R., Chesaning Township, Oakley, 48616
When was it listed? October 1994
Category. structure
Township. Chesaning township
National Register reference number. 94001168 - 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Parshallburg Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 5 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	6
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
19 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 88 - 2020
3 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 81 - 2019
23 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 55 - 2020
28 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 32 - 2020
27 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 38 - 2020
26 April 2020	Natural	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 37 - 2020
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 51 - 2018
19 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHESANING-BRADY FD 33 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Parshallburg Bridge: 1 producer. 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
	Fred Fitzgerald Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakley, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$30,000	A 50 inch diameter ash tree fall onto a home, puncturing three holes in the roof.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$10,000	Multiple trees down across Saginaw County.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$10,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$5,000	no account filed
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$3,000	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	A car port was blown into the air and landed about 200 feet away, taking down power lines in the process.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001168 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saginaw County	All 37 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.