North Watervliet Road-Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The North Watervliet Road-Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge, also known as Trunk Line Bridge No. 57, was an arch bridge in Watervliet Township, Michigan, that carried North Watervliet Road over the outlet of Paw Paw Lake into the Paw Paw River. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article North Watervliet Road-Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1916.

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. North Watervliet Road--Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N. Watervliet Rd. over Paw Paw Lake outlet (Watervliet Township), Watervliet, 49098
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Watervliet township
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 99001575 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of North Watervliet Road-Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 142 - 2020
13 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WATERVLIET FD 322 - 2020
12 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARTFORD FD 425 - 2019
11 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HARTFORD FD 419 - 2019
9 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 100 - 2020
8 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 106 - 2019
22 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WATERVLIET FD 189 - 2019
12 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 109 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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 North Watervliet Road-Paw Paw Lake Outlet Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Silica. 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
	Acolliney Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
	Rose Pit	Silica	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Watervliet, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Watervliet	$70,000	Trees and power lines were reported down in Watervliet. A home as well as 2 cars suffered damage in Coloma as high winds brought down a large tree. Damage amount estimated.
April 2023	Flood	Watervliet	-	Flooding on 70th Street south of I-94. Photo via twitter shows road covered with water.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Watervliet	-	Emergency management reported trees down in Watervliet.

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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 99001575 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berrien County	All 32 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.