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Ocqueoc Falls Highway-Ocqueoc River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Ocqueoc Falls Highway-Ocqueoc River Bridge is a highway bridge located on the Ocqueoc Falls Highway over Ocqueoc River in Ocqueoc Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Ocqueoc Falls Highway-Ocqueoc River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Presque Isle 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. Ocqueoc Falls Highway--Ocqueoc River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Ocqueoc Falls Highway over Ocqueoc R., Ocqueoc, 49759
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Ocqueoc township
  • National Register reference number. 99001536 - 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Ocqueoc Falls Highway-Ocqueoc River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 283 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning11
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2019Natural3.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 05 - MOP UP FIRE
4 August 2016Natural8.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Natural2.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 03 - GLASS MAKER
19 July 2002Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPRESQUE ISLE 09

Every fire recorded in Presque Isle County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ocqueoc Falls Highway-Ocqueoc River Bridge: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indian Creek Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
East Branch Limestone ExposureLimestone, GeneralProspect
Ocqueoc Limestone ExposureLimestone, GeneralProspect

Every working recorded in Presque Isle County

Storms near this property

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocqueoc, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$12,000A number of trees and power lines were downed in and west of Rogers City. A boater at harbor in Rogers City measured a 66 mph gust.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$4,000Several large trees downed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$4,000Trees downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOcqueoc$2,000Trees downed.
September 2012HailOcqueoc-Golfball-sized hail fell along M-68 between Rogers City and Millersburg.
July 2006HailOcqueoc-Nickel sized hail at Huron Beach.
July 2005HailOcqueoc-A small cluster of severe thunderstorms developed early in the afternoon in northeast Lower Michigan. Quarter sized hail fell at Huron Beach.
June 2006HailOcqueoc-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Presque Isle 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Camp Black Lake6.9 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Presque Isle CountyAll 13 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.