Photograph of Cheboygan Bascule Bridge — Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cheboyan Bascule Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Cheboygan Bascule Bridge, also known as the State Street Bridge, is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Cheboygan, Michigan, carrying U.S. Built in 1940, it was the last bascule bridge constructed in the state of Michigan prior to the end of World War II.”
Wikipedia article Cheboygan Bascule Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Cheboygan 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

Address. US 23 over Cheboyan R., Cheboyan, 49721
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
City. Cheboygan city
National Register reference number. 99001509 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cheboyan Bascule Bridge between 1994 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	INVERNESS FD 0000045 - 2018
15 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	4.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 May 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.1 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Cheboygan 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 Cheboyan Bascule Bridge: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Cheboygan Tile&Brick Co Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Cheboygan 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

4 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
Newton-Allaire House	0.3 miles	1983
Cheboygan County Courthouse	0.6 miles	1986
Fourteen Foot Shoal Light Station	3.0 miles	2005
Poe Reef Light Station	6.3 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001509 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cheboygan County	All 9 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.