Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“The Chicago Drive Bridge, also known as the Business Route M-21-Plaster Creek Bridge, is a bridge in Wyoming, Michigan, carrying Business Spur I-196 over Plaster Creek. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Chicago Drive Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 57 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.99001522- 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
123 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Business Route M-21-Plaster Creek Bridge
between 2012 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 14 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 use
56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
42
Natural
14
Debris and open burning
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Business Route M-21-Plaster Creek Bridge: 7 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wyoming, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Gusty thunderstorm winds flattened a house under construction in Wyoming in Kent County, causing one fatality and injuring another person. A 70 mile per hour wind gust was recorded in Grandville. Numerous trees were downed across the county. A 75 mile per hour wind gust was recorded in Grand Rapids.
The National Weather Service Office in Grand Rapids received several reports of hail to 1 1/2" in diameter in and around the city of Wyoming. Reports came from the intersections of 36th Street and Burlingame Avenue SW, 44th Street and Clyde Park Avenue SW, and along the Grandville/Wyoming city limits border.
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.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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