M-88-Intermediate River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The M-88-Intermediate River Bridge is a bridge located on M-88 over the Intermediate River in Bellaire, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article M-88-Intermediate River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Antrim 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. M--88--Intermediate River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. MI 88 over Intermediate R., Bellaire, 49615
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Kearney township
Architect. Michigan Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 99001574 - 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of M-88-Intermediate River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Debris and open burning	25
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANTRIM 03 - PINE PILE
9 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELLAIRE DISTRICT FD 272 - 2019
22 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANTRIM 01 - WOODCHIP FIRE
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 August 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ANTRIM 07
12 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Antrim 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 M-88-Intermediate River Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	William W Johnston Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Wilsons Farm Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Antrim County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellaire, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellaire	$25,000	Numerous trees downed. Roof and large deck of home near Shanty Creek heavily damaged by fallen trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellaire-	$10,000	Numerous trees and some power lines were downed by the wind between Bellaire and Alden.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellaire	$6,000	Trees and power lines downed around and on the north side of Bellaire.
September 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Bellaire	-	An EF-1 tornado touched down on the southwest side of Bellaire and tracked northeast for nearly a mile before dissipating on the north side of Craven Park, producing spotty tree damage across the town and in the park.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Bellaire	-	Water over M-88 in multiple locations.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellaire	-	Numerous trees down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellaire	-	Large tree limbs down.
May 2013	Hail	Bellaire	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Bellaire	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antrim 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Henry Richardi House	0.1 miles	1978
	Antrim County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001574 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Antrim 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.
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.