County Road 557-West Branch Escanaba River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The County Road 557-West Branch Escanaba River Bridge is a bridge located on County Road 557 as it passes over the West Branch of the Escanaba River in Wells Township in Marquette County, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article County Road 557-West Branch Escanaba River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Marquette 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. County Road 557--West Branch Escanaba River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Cty. Rd. 557 over West Branch of Escanaba R., Wells Township, 49841
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Wells township
National Register reference number. 99001529 - 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of County Road 557-West Branch Escanaba River Bridge between 2006 and 2011, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARNOLD
5 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	438 WEST
5 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	438 EAST
5 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SESQUICENTENIAL FIRE
12 April 2009	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SQ FIRE
8 October 2006	Smoking	1.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marquette 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 99001529 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marquette County	All 40 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.