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Mansfield Road-Michigamme River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Mansfield Road-Michigamme River Bridge was a bridge located on Mansfield Road over the Michigamme River in Mansfield Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Mansfield Road-Michigamme River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Iron 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. Mansfield Road--Michigamme River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Mansfield Rd. over Michigamme R., Mansfield Township, 49920
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Mansfield township
  • Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
  • National Register reference number. 99001519 - 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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mansfield Road-Michigamme River Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 118 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0006
23 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesM-69 FIRE
19 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2014Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0002
1 May 2016Fireworks6.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Mansfield Road-Michigamme River Bridge: 58 prospects, 25 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Diamond, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Basalt QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Dishaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Ellen KimberliteDiamondPast Producer1971
Upper Peninsula AreaDiamondProspectKimberlite
Armania MineIronPast Producer1889, 1914
Armenia MineIronPast Producer1889
Bird ExplorationIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
BruleIronPast Producer1936
Caladonia ProspectIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Cayia MineIronPast Producer1951, 1954

Every working recorded in Iron 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

6 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
Mansfield Mine Location Historic District0.4 miles1983
William Russell House5.6 miles1983
Ernest Diele House5.6 miles1983
Frank W. Cole House5.6 miles1983
John H. Parks Company-Wills Hardware Building5.6 miles1983
Timothy Murphy House5.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001519 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iron CountyAll 80 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.