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Photograph of Stancer Road-North Coldwater River Bridge
Photograph by Rod Detty ( ardee4 ), CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stancer-Road-North Coldwater River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Stancer Road-North Coldwater River Bridge is a road bridge carrying Stancer Road over the North Coldwater River in Union Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Stancer Road-North Coldwater River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Branch 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. Stancer--Road--North Coldwater River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Stancer Rd. over N. Coldwater R., Union Township, 49094
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Union township
  • National Register reference number. 99001608 - 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Stancer-Road-North Coldwater River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000049 - 2019
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000048 - 2019
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURLINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000148 - 2018
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000044 - 2019
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000039 - 2019
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000030 - 2019
3 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000031 - 2019
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesUNION CITY FD 0000031 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Branch County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stancer-Road-North Coldwater River Bridge: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Peerless Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Branch 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
US-12-Coldwater River Bridge6.1 miles1999
Capri Drive-In Theater6.2 miles2024
Benedict Doll House6.7 miles1990
Marshall Street Historic District7.0 miles1990
West Pearl Street Historic District7.0 miles1990
Coldwater Downtown Historic District7.1 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001608 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Branch CountyAll 17 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.