Residential Drive-Townline Brook Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Townline Brook Bridge, also known as the Bennett Park Bridge, is a bridge carrying a private residential driveway over Townline Brook in Walton Township, Michigan, near 5882 Battle Creek Road. It is the only remaining 1870s bowstring truss bridge in the state of Michigan.”
Wikipedia article Townline Brook Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Eaton County · listed in 2000 · 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. Residential Drive--Townline Brook Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Residential Drive over Townline Br., Walton Township, 49076
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Walton township
National Register reference number. 99001652 - 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Residential Drive-Townline Brook Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
13 May 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELLEVUE FD 020-128 - 2020
6 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OLIVET FD 0000070 - 2019
10 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLOTTE FD 0000211 - 2019
30 March 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHARLOTTE FD 0000183 - 2018
26 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BELLEVUE FD 019-116 - 2019
26 March 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OLIVET FD 0000071 - 2018
23 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OLIVET FD 0000069 - 2018
17 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OLIVET FD 0000061 - 2018

Every fire recorded in Eaton County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Residential Drive-Townline Brook Bridge: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Bellevue Limestone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bellevue Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	1946
Olivet Brick&Tile Co Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Rieth - Riley Construction Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Vermontville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Eaton 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

3 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
Hance House	3.1 miles	1972
Bellevue Mill	3.9 miles	1975
Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge	7.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001652 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eaton County	All 18 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.