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Photograph of Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek Bridge
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Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek Bridge is a bridge located on Chicagon Mine Road over Chicagon Creek in Bates Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek 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. Chicagon Mine Road--Chicagon Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Chicagon Mine Rd. over Chicagon Creek, Bates Township, 49935
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Bates township
  • National Register reference number. 99001521 - 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek Bridge between 1995 and 2019, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL FALLS FIRE AUTHORITY 0001930 - 2019
24 May 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTATE PARK
14 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAMARACK
12 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL FALLS FIRE AUTHORITY 0001814 - 2018
22 April 2017Arson/incendiarism9.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATES TWP

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 185 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 185 workings within 5 miles of Chicagon Mine Road-Chicagon Creek Bridge: 170 prospects, 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Sherwood MineAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1851, 1943
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baker MineIronPast Producer1909
Bates Exploration C2IronProspect
Bates Exploration C3IronProspect
Bates No. 3 ShaftIronPast Producer
Bates Prospect C-25IronProspect
Bates Prospect C1IronProspect
Bates Prospect C10IronProspect

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
US 2-Iron River Bridge0.6 miles1999
Bewabic Park3.9 miles2016
John W. Hanson House5.7 miles1983
Charles Stolberg House5.9 miles1983
Italian Society Duke of Abruzzi Hall5.9 miles1983
Caspian Mine Headframe5.9 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001521 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.