Ball Road-Little Salt Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Ball Road-Little Salt Creek Bridge, also known as simply the Ball Road Bridge, was a bridge carrying Ball Road over Little Salt Creek in Jasper Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Ball Road-Little Salt Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Midland 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. Ball Road--Little Salt Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ball Rd. over Little Salt Creek, Jasper Township, 48880
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Jasper township
National Register reference number. 99001533 - 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Ball Road-Little Salt Creek Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000217 - 2019
30 July 2015	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 23
2 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHEPHERD TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 0018350 - 2018
9 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 0007
6 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000154 - 2019
4 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MIDLAND 17

Every fire recorded in Midland 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 99001533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Midland County	All 27 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.