Built in 1850. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“The Coldwater Covered Bridge, also known as the Hughes Mill Covered Bridge, is a locally owned wooden covered bridge that spans the outflow from Oxford Lake in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. It is located at Oxford Lake Park off State Route 21 in the city of Oxford, about 4 miles south of Anniston.”
Wikipedia article Coldwater Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Calhoun County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1850.
National Register reference number.73000333- 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
160 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Coldwater Creek Covered Bridge
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,942 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 were 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
Debris and open burning
64
Arson/incendiarism
45
Recreation and ceremony
18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Smoking
4
Natural
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Coldwater Creek Covered Bridge: 7 unknowns, 6 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Coldwater, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood.
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.
Widespread flooding in the cities of Oxford and Anniston in far southern Calhoun County. Choccolocco Creek out of its banks which resulted in several homes flooded. Water several feet deep on both side of Interstate 20 with five vehicles submerged. An nearby ASOS (KANB) reported 3.47 inches of rainfall in a 4 hour period.
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.
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.
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