South Union Street-Boardman River Bridge

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The South Union Street-Boardman River Bridge, also known as the Trunk Line Bridge, is a bridge located on South Union Street over the Boardman River in Traverse City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article South Union Street-Boardman River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Grand Traverse County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1931.

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. South Union Street--Boardman River Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. S. Union St. over Boardman R., Traverse City, 49684
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
City. Traverse City city
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 99001651 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of South Union Street-Boardman River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Debris and open burning	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
17 September 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193174 - 2019
26 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 193152 - 2019
18 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRAVERSE CITY FD 0002106 - 2018
18 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE 06
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TRAVERSE CITY FD 0002045 - 2018
11 August 1996	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GRAND TRAVERSE METRO FD 192439 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Union Street-Boardman River Bridge: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Traverse City Plant	Iron	Producer
Grand Traverse Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Harris Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Haywood Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
The Concrete Service Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Walton Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this property

48 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traverse City, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
September 2000	Lightning	Traverse City	1 killed, 1 hurt	A father and son were struck by lightning. See narrative below.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$7,800,000	The most concentrated damage in Grand Traverse County occurred on the Old Mission Peninsula. Many trees were down, and multiple vineyards and orchards suffered substantial damage. Vehicles and buildings were also damaged by felled trees. Across Grand Traverse County, nine buildings were considered destroyed, and nearly 400 were damaged in some way.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Traverse City	$310,000	Munson Hospital measured 3.12 inches of rain during the day on the 28th. Most of this was dumped in a short period of time, early in the afternoon. This resulted in a small area of flash flooding, in downtown Traverse City and on the near west side. Water rose up to three feet high on some roads and parking lots, and in a few spots the water was higher. Some people were trapped in vehicles and required rescue. Numerous vehicles were heavily damaged. The basement of Munson Hospital flooded. Kids Creek rose out of banks, flooding roads and some buildings.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Traverse City	$90,000	Training thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of Traverse City. Munson Hospital measured 2.45 of rain during the afternoon and evening. Quick-hitting flash flooding developed in the area, and in particular on the near west side of the city. Kids Creek overflowed its banks. Cedar Street and other roads near Munson Hospital were flooded. This event was extremely similar, though not quite as hard hitting, as the flash flood event in the same location back on May 28 2020.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$45,000	Trees were downed onto Parsons Road. A home in East Bay Township was heavily damaged when a tree fell through its roof.
October 2020	Flood	Traverse City	$35,000	Road flooding occurred in a number of places in the Traverse City area. Logans Landing along the Boardman River saw the parking lot flood. Eleventh St and Division St saw flooding, as did West Front St and Madison Dr. Flooding also occurred in the Three Mile Rd area, near Mitchel Creek.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$35,000	Several trees downed southeast of Traverse City, and a school fence was knocked over. Large swath of trees, 20 yards wide and over 100 yards long, downed near east shore of Long Lake. Over 200 trees were downed.
September 2000	Lightning	Traverse City	$20,000	Lightning struck the garage of a residential home and set it on fire.
November 2013	Flash Flood	Traverse City	$14,000	Rainfall amounts of just over two inches in an hour produced short-lived urban flooding in Traverse City. Numerous streets were impassible, including Veterans Drive, Garfield Road, and South Airport Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$10,000	Various reports of wind damage, including downed trees and power poles, from mping and social media in this area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$10,000	Several trees were downed near Seventh Street. The power was knocked out in much of Traverse City. A 56 mph gust was measured at Cherry Capital Airport.
August 2023	Hail	Traverse City	$5,000	Report of quarter size hail near Front and Division in Traverse City. Spotter also reported lots of tree damage in the area. Time estimated from radar.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$5,000	Picture relayed from broadcast media. Trees down in vicinity of 500 block of 8th Street in Traverse City. Broadcast media also relayed additional pictures of downed trees from the Traverse City area. Time estimated from radar.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$3,000	Multiple trees downed.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$3,000	Trees were downed across a road.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$3,000	Five trees downed in Bryant Park.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$2,000	Tree down across Hartman Rd near US-31. Report from TV 7/4.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	$1,000	Broadcast media report of power lines down on Hartman road.
March 2026	Hail	Traverse City	-	Hail from half-inch up to penny size near Traverse City West Senior High in Traverse City, MI.
June 2025	Hail	Traverse City	-	Multiple reports of large hail in the Traverse City, MI metro area, including quarter-size hail at UpNorthLive studios west of Traverse City at 0630am, and half dollar size hail at 9&10 studios in downtown Traverse City at 0640am. Hail up to 1.5 inches was reported near Turtle Creek Casino at Acme, east of Traverse City, at 0654am, along with ponding on roads from heavy rainfall. Additional reports and photos of similar sized hail in the Traverse City area on social media.
June 2023	Flood	Traverse City	-	Several reports of standing water in and around Traverse City.
October 2023	Flood	Traverse City	-	Broadcast media video of street flooding at Spruce and Bay Streets in Traverse City.
October 2023	Flash Flood	Traverse City	-	Grand Traverse County Emergency Management reports flooding at several spots in and around downtown Traverse City.
June 2022	Hail	Traverse City	-	Estimated brief quarter size hail. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Traverse City	-	Flooding at 14th St and Veterans Dr in Traverse City.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Numerous tree limbs and a few trees were downed. Fruit was knocked off of trees.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Several large tree limbs down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Numerous trees down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Trees and power lines down.
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	A tree was toppled on powerlines.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Traverse City	-	Small creeks were overflowing their banks and several secondary streets were covered with water.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Trees and power lines down. One building destroyed.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Trees and power lines down
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines.
May 2019	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
October 2006	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
July 2000	Flash Flood	Traverse City	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Traverse City	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Traverse City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
City Opera House	0.1 miles	1972
American Legion Memorial Bridge	0.1 miles	2000
Perry Hannah House	0.2 miles	1972
Central Neighborhood Historic District	0.3 miles	1979
Boardman Neighborhood Historic District	0.6 miles	1978
Northern Michigan Asylum	0.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001651 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand Traverse County	All 12 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.