US 41-Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The US 41-Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge is a highway bridge located on US Highway 41 (US 41) over the Fanny Hooe Creek about one mile east of Copper Harbor, adjacent to Fort Wilkins State Park, in Grant Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article US 41-Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Keweenaw County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1928.

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. US 41--Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 41 over Fanny Hooe Creek, Grant Township, 49918
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Grant township
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 99001525 - 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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of US 41-Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge between 2001 and 2008, burning under an acre 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
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
23 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HOAR LAKE
5 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of US 41-Fanny Hooe Creek Bridge: 19 past producers, 9 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese. 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
Clark Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Past Producer	1881
Aetna Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Aetna Exploration Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1864, 1867
Cape Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1854
Clark	Copper	Past Producer	1872, 1879
Empire Copper Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Girard Exploration	Copper	Prospect	1864, 1865
Hanover Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1852
Hays Mine (Pittsburgh & Boston)	Copper	Past Producer	Fissure Copper Veins
Lac La Belle Exploration	Copper	Past Producer	1850

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fort Wilkins	0.5 miles	1970
Copper Harbor Light Station	0.8 miles	2012
Keweenaw Mountain Lodge and Golf Course Complex	1.8 miles	1980
Brockway Mountain Drive	5.4 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001525 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Keweenaw County	All 31 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.