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Photograph of Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge
Photograph by Michigan. State Highway Dept, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge, also known as the Riverdale Bridge, was a bridge located on Lincoln Road over the Pine River near Seville, Michigan. The architect behind the Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge was the Michigan State Highway Department and its builder was Walter Willets.”

Wikipedia article Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Gratiot County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1922, by Michigan Department of Transportation.

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. Lincoln Road--Pine River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Lincoln Rd. over Pine R., Seville, 48877
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Seville township
  • When was it built? 1922
  • Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
  • National Register reference number. 99001516 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000031 - 2019
15 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000137 - 2019
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use24 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONTCALM 01
9 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL TOWNSHIP FD 0031-18 - 2018
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000072 - 2019
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000027 - 2018
22 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2018
19 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALMA FD 0000079 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lincoln Road-Pine River Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elm Hall Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gratiot 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. Charles H. MacLachlan Sanitarium and House4.4 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001516 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gratiot CountyAll 6 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.