Mower Road-Cole Drain Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Mower Road - Cole Drain Bridge is a bridge carrying Mower Road over the Cole Drain in Spaulding Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Mower Road - Cole Drain Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Saginaw 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. Mower Road--Cole Drain Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Mower Rd. over Cole Drain, Spaulding Township, 48601
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Spaulding township
National Register reference number. 99001537 - 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Mower Road-Cole Drain Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
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
5 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 875 - 2019
29 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge	STROEBEL ROAD 3
27 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge	STROEBEL ROAD 2
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000064 - 2019
12 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000053 - 2019
7 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAGINAW FD 2570 - 2018
5 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge	GERMANIA EAST
29 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BRIDGEPORT FD 712 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Saginaw 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 Mower Road-Cole Drain Bridge: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
	Albee Clay Sample	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Prospect
	Stand.Mining Co.Clay Shale Pit	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Saginaw 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

6 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
State Street Bridge	4.8 miles	1995
Center Road-Tittabawassee River Bridge	5.1 miles	1999
Benjamin Cushway House	5.7 miles	1982
Wenzel House	5.9 miles	1982
South Michigan Avenue Historic District	5.9 miles	1982
Ammi and William Wright House	6.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001537 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saginaw County	All 37 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.