Ten Curves Road-Manistique River Bridge

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Ten Curves Road-Manistique River Bridge was a bridge carrying Ten Curves Road over the Manistique River in Germfask Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, and was demolished in 2013.”
Wikipedia article Ten Curves Road-Manistique River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Schoolcraft County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1923.

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. Ten Curves Road--Manistique River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Ten Curves Rd. over Manistique R., Gemfask Township, 49836
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Germfask township
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 99001538 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ten Curves Road-Manistique River Bridge between 1992 and 2016, burning about 3,425 acres in total. 4 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	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROUTER WASH
15 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	JURASSIC
8 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	G TO D
8 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	LIGHTNING STRIKE
17 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	SENEY
15 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	LAWN MOWER MAN
7 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft 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 99001538 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoolcraft County	All 4 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.