King Road-Whitefish River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The King Road-Whitefish River Bridge is a bridge located on King Road over the Whitefish River in Limestone Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article King Road-Whitefish 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. King Road--Whitefish River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. King Rd. over Whitefish River, Limestone Township, 49891
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Limestone township
National Register reference number. 99001463 - 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of King Road-Whitefish River Bridge between 1994 and 2003, burning about 54 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
Debris and open burning	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
10 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 1994	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2003	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mikulich General Store	5.9 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001463 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.