County Road I-39- Rapid River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The County Road I-39-Rapid River Bridge is a bridge located on County Road I-39 over the Rapid River in Masonville Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article County Road I-39-Rapid River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Delta 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. County Road I-39-- Rapid River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Cty. Rd. I-39 ober Rapid R., Masonville Township, 49878
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Masonville township
National Register reference number. 99001511 - 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of County Road I-39- Rapid River Bridge between 1993 and 2019, burning about 86 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TIRE FIRE
24 May 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	BALDWIN
20 May 1996	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BALDWIN TOWNSHIP VFD 2019005 - 2019
21 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASONVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0201811 - 2018
19 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	RIDGEVIEW
15 April 2019	Natural	25 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BALDWIN TOWNSHIP VFD 2019004 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Delta 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 99001511 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delta County	All 15 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.