Smyth Road Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Oconto County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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.
Address. Smyth Rd. over North Branch of the Oconto River, Lakewood, 54138
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. structure
Town. Lakewood town
National Register reference number. 96001018 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Smyth Road Bridge between 1992 and 2016, burning about 148 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	15
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Fireworks	4
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
1 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	HIGHWAY 32 DOT
6 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	WHEELER ISLAND
30 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	SCHOTTKY ROAD
4 July 1998	Fireworks	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	FIREWORK II
30 July 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	WAUBEE LAKE ROAD FIRE
29 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 July 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest	SCHLITZ
19 July 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Oconto 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 Smyth Road Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Oconto County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakewood, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakewood	-	Trees were knocked down on County Highway F, about eight miles northeast of Lakewood.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakewood	-	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines in Lakewood.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakewood	-	Trees and wires down.
May 2006	Heavy Rain	Lakewood	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakewood	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Lakewood	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lakewood	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Lakewood	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Lakewood	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Lakewood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oconto 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

2 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
	Holt and Balcom Logging Camp No.1	4.1 miles	1978
	Mountain Fire Lookout Tower	7.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001018 in Record Group 79.
Oconto County	All 23 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.