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23 Mile Road-Kalamazoo River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The 23 Mile Road-Kalamazoo River Bridge is a curved-chord through-girder bridge in Marengo Township, Michigan, United States, that carries 23 Mile Road over the Kalamazoo River. Built in 1922, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article 23 Mile Road-Kalamazoo River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Calhoun 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. 23 Mile Road--Kalamazoo River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 23 Mile Rd. over Kalamazoo R., Marengo, 49224
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Marengo township
  • National Register reference number. 99001611 - 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of 23 Mile Road-Kalamazoo River Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 57 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 use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPARMA-SANDSTONE FD 504 - 2020
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 216 - 2020
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARENGO TOWNSHIP FD 0000108 - 2018
27 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBION DPS 0000066 - 2019
2 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL FD 00479 - 2018
17 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018085 - 2018
1 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHERIDAN TOWNSHIP FD 2018074 - 2018
24 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALBION DPS 0000043 - 2020

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 23 Mile Road-Kalamazoo River Bridge: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cole Bros Contractors, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
George Miller & Sons Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tekonsha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marengo, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMarengo$5,000,000There were multiple reports of downed trees and limbs and power lines.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMarengo-A trained spotter reported two trees were blown down two miles north northwest of Marengo.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Eugene P. Robertson House5.1 miles1988
Superior Street Commercial Historic District5.1 miles1997
Capitol Hill School5.4 miles1972
Wright-Brooks House5.4 miles1972
Marshall Avenue Bridge5.4 miles2001
Governor's Mansion5.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001611 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Calhoun CountyAll 50 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.