M-50-Sandstone Creek Bridge

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The M-50-Sandstone Creek Bridge, also known as th Tompkins Bridge, is a road bridge carrying M-50 over Sandstone Creek in Tompkins Township, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article M-50-Sandstone Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1927.

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. M-50--Sandstone Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. MI 50 over Sandstone Cr. (Tompkins Township), Tompkins, 49277
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Michigan MPS
Township. Tompkins township
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 99001674 - 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

31 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of M-50-Sandstone Creek Bridge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 4 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	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	4
Smoking	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
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 15461 - 2019
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARMA-SANDSTONE FD 428 - 2020
6 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 158 - 2019
5 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 225 - 2020
4 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 61 - 2019
3 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 71 - 2020
3 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 69 - 2020
3 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LESLIE FD 0000031 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	James M. Jameson Farm	2.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001674 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 29 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.