Planter Road-Jackson Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Planter Road - Jackson Creek Bridge is a bridge located on Planter Road over Jackson Creek in Wakefield Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Planter Road-Jackson Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Gogebic 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. Planter Road--Jackson Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Planter Rd. over Jackson Creek, Wakefield Township, 49968
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Wakefield township
National Register reference number. 99001515 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Planter Road-Jackson Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
16 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	LONE PINE
7 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 May 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WAKEFIELD FD 0540001 - 2020
30 April 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ottawa National Forest	JOHNSON ROAD
17 October 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Planter Road-Jackson Creek Bridge: 29 past producers, 13 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed Lead Prospect	Lead	Occurrence
Cebolski Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Les Johnson Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Anvil-Palms-Keeweenaw Group	Iron	Past Producer	1886, 1887
Anvil-Palms-Keweenaw Group	Iron	Past Producer	1887, 1957
Castile-Meteor Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Secondary Enrichment
Chicago Mines (Sparta)	Iron	Past Producer	1892, 1915
Chicago- Includes Former Sparta	Iron	Past Producer	1892
Colby Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1884, 1923
Eureka-Asteroid	Iron	Past Producer	1890

Every working recorded in Gogebic 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

2 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
	Main Street-Black River Bridge	3.1 miles	1999
	Gogebic County Courthouse	4.5 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001515 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gogebic County	All 11 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.