Photograph of New Richmond Swing Bridge — Photograph by WMrapids, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fifty-Seventh Street Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The New Richmond Swing Bridge, also known as the Fifty-Seventh Street Bridge, is a one lane swing bridge in Michigan. Located in Allegan County's Manlius Township, it connected 57th Street with Old Allegan Road over the Kalamazoo River until its closure to vehicular traffic.”
Wikipedia article New Richmond Swing Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Allegan County · listed in 1998 · 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. 57th St. over the Kalamazoo R., Manlius Township, 49419
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. structure
Township. Manlius township
National Register reference number. 98000273 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fifty-Seventh Street Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAAFSCHAP FD 2018470 - 2018
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018
21 May 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 May 1995	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Allegan 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
Warner P. Sutton House	4.5 miles	1992
All Saints' Episcopal Church	4.8 miles	1984
Francis Metallic Surfboat	4.9 miles	2015
Douglas Union School	4.9 miles	1995
Leiendecker's Inn-Coral Gables	5.0 miles	2009
Saugatuck Pump House	5.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000273 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allegan County	All 33 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.