M-28-Tahquamenon River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Chippewa County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. M-28--Tahquamenon River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. M-28 over Tahquamenon River, Chippawa Township, 49728
When was it listed? November 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Chippewa township
National Register reference number. 99001466 - 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of M-28-Tahquamenon River Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
14 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	ECKERMAN CORNER
19 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	CAINE SIDING
14 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	NOODLE
9 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	TRAILER TRASH
5 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	SALT
5 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	BUCKET FIRE
4 July 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	SOD FIRE
3 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	CLUELESS

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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 99001466 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chippewa County	All 26 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.