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Photograph of Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge
Photograph by kennethaw88, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge is a bridge that formerly carried Powers Highway over Battle Creek in Brookfield Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Powers Highway-Battle Creek 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. Powers Highway--Battle Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Powers Hwy. over Battle Cr., Brookfield Township, 48813
  • When was it listed? January 2000
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
  • Township. Brookfield township
  • National Register reference number. 99001653 - 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge between 2018 and 2019, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 185 - 2019
12 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 171 - 2019
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEATON RAPIDS TWP FD 186 - 2018
14 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLIVET FD 0000076 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Eaton 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 Powers Highway-Battle Creek Bridge: 1 prospect. 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
Fc Hunt Clay ProspectClayProspect

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

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
Hance House5.9 miles1972
Residential Drive-Townline Brook Bridge7.6 miles2000
Charlotte Central Historic District7.7 miles2020
First Congregational Church7.7 miles1993
Eaton County Courthouse Complex (Boundary Increase)7.8 miles1993
Eaton County Courthouse7.8 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001653 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eaton CountyAll 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.