Second Street-Gun River Bridge

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Second Street-Gun River Bridge was a bridge over the Gun River in Martin Township, Michigan, USA. The bridge was significant as a rare example of a bridge with a plaque stating that it had been built as a result of Michigan's Covert Act.”
Wikipedia article Second Street-Gun River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Allegan County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1926.

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. Second Street--Gun River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2nd St. over Gun River (Martin Township), Hooper, 49080
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Martin township
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 99001573 - 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 Second Street-Gun River Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	3
Smoking	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
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MARTIN FIRE/RESCUE 0000076 - 2018
7 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000158 - 2019
8 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 03 FISH LAKE
12 May 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000129 - 2019
3 April 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 April 2018	Natural	3.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRAIRIEVILLE TOWNSHIP-PINE LAKE FD 0000100 - 2018
29 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GUN PLAIN CHARTER TWP FD 0000047 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Allegan County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooper, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hooper	-	Law enforcement in Allegan county reported that several trees were blown down and blocked roads near the intersection of 2nd Street and 112th Avenue as well as 4th Street and 133rd Avenue.

Every storm recorded in Allegan 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
J. F. Eesley Milling Co. Flour Mill-Elevator	6.1 miles	1991
Michigan Paper Company Mill Historic District	6.4 miles	2011
James Noble Sherwood House	6.4 miles	1984
Cherry DeLefebvre House	6.5 miles	1991
Island Historic District	6.5 miles	1991
West Bridge Street Historic District	6.7 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001573 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allegan County	All 33 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.
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.