US 31-Pentwater River Bridge

Built in 1954. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The US 31-Pentwater River Bridge is a three-span steel bridge that carries Oceana Drive over the Pentwater River in northern Hart, Michigan. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article US 31-Pentwater River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Oceana County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1954.

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 31--Pentwater River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 31 over Pentwater R., Weare Township, 49420
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Weare township
When was it built? 1954
National Register reference number. 99001534 - 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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of US 31-Pentwater River Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 97 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
8 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 18
8 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 19
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 84 - 2019
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 77 - 2018
5 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 89 - 2020
4 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 88 - 2020
27 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Oceana County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of US 31-Pentwater River Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hart Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Pentwater E.Lowlands Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oceana 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

3 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
Hart Downtown Historic District	3.0 miles	2015
Navigation Structures at Pentwater Harbor	3.7 miles	2001
Jared H. Gay House	7.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001534 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oceana County	All 6 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.