Mackinac Trail-Carp River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Mackinac Trail-Carp River Bridge is a bridge located on H-63 over the Carp River in St. It is the oldest bridge in Mackinac County, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Mackinac Trail-Carp River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Mackinac 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. Mackinac Trail--Carp River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Mackinac Trail over Carp R., St. Ignace Township, 49781
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. St. Ignace township
National Register reference number. 99001528 - 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

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mackinac Trail-Carp River Bridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	MEDIAN
24 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	360
8 June 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	MILE 354
9 April 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	not named
3 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	CARP RIVER #1
24 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	SMELT
20 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	CARP RIVER #2
15 April 2006	Recreation and ceremony	2.6 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	CARP RIVER #2

Every fire recorded in Mackinac 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001528 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mackinac County	All 22 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.