State Street Bridge

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The State Street Bridge, also known as the Fort Road Bridge or the Bridgeport Bridge, is a bridge carrying State Street over the Cass River in Bridgeport, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article State Street Bridge (Bridgeport, Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Saginaw County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1906.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. State St. (Fort Rd.) over the Cass R., Bridgeport, 48722
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. structure
Charter township. Bridgeport charter township
When was it built? 1906
National Register reference number. 95001391 - 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

59 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of State Street Bridge between 2012 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 14 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	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
5 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 875 - 2019
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000064 - 2019
15 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BUENA VISTA FD 1582 - 2018
1 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAGINAW FD 2855 - 2019
27 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAGINAW FD 2804 - 2019
12 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000053 - 2019
10 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BUENA VISTA FD 1407 - 2019
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAGINAW FD 2576 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Saginaw 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 State Street Bridge: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Day's Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Stand.Mining Co.Clay Shale Pit	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
May 2019	Flood	Bridgeport	$300,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$300,000	no account filed
May 2005	Lightning	Bridgeport	$15,000	A lightning strike sparked a basement fire at a home on McGrandy near Airport. The fire was contained to a single room in the basement.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$15,000	A large tree fell onto a garage.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$8,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$8,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	$5,000	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Large tree fell onto house collpasing a portion of the roof.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Trees were reported blown down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Law enforcement reported a tree down in Bridgeport.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	Two utility poles were blown down.
June 2011	Hail	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Bridgeport	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Bridgeport	-	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.

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
Saginaw County Fairgrounds Main Gate	3.8 miles	2014
Mower Road-Cole Drain Bridge	4.8 miles	1999
South Jefferson Avenue Historic District	5.1 miles	1982
Saginaw Central City Expansion District	5.2 miles	1982
Passolt House	5.2 miles	1972
Grove, The	5.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001391 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.