Avery Road-Galien River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Avery Road-Galien River Bridge is a bridge that carried Avery Road over the Galien River near New Troy, Michigan. The year of construction is uncertain, but it was built by 1928.”
Wikipedia article Avery Road-Galien River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Berrien 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. Avery Road--Galien River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Avery Rd. over Galien R. (Weesaw Township), New Troy
When was it listed? December 1999
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Weesaw township
National Register reference number. 99001577 - 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Avery Road-Galien River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	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
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHIKAMING FD 335 - 2019
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 18-0039 - 2018
4 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000201 - 2018
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHIKAMING FD 322 - 2018
12 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHIKAMING FD 235 - 2019
11 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 18-0024 - 2018
19 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 20-0023 - 2020
3 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 20-0011 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Avery Road-Galien River Bridge: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
South Bridgman Site	Silica	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Haof No 1 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Naoff No 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this property

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Troy, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	New Troy	$20,000	Several large trees down in and around New Troy. Power is out.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	New Troy	-	Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees and power lines down from Chikaming to New Troy.
May 2011	Hail	New Troy	-	no account filed

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.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Ninth District Lighthouse Depot	5.4 miles	1993
Warren Featherbone Company Office Building	5.8 miles	1986
Union Meat Market	6.0 miles	1972
Lakeside Inn	6.7 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001577 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.