M-28-Sand River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The M-28-Sand River Bridge is a bridge located on M-28 over the Sand River in Onota Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article M-28-Sand River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Alger County · listed in 1999 · 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.
Listed as. M-28--Sand River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Hwy M-28 over Sand River, Onota Township, 49822
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Onota township
National Register reference number. 99001460 - 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of M-28-Sand River Bridge between 2001 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2

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
28 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DEERTON
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ONOTA TOWNSHIP VFD 0190803 - 2019
16 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKE LEVASSEUR
24 July 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 June 2001	Natural	3.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2003	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAND LAKE
19 May 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALGER 0001

Every fire recorded in Alger 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 M-28-Sand River Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
	Sand River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alger 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 99001460 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alger County	All 14 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.