Verde River Sheep Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Verde River Sheep Bridge, also known as the Red Point Sheep Bridge, is a suspension bridge which crosses the Verde River in Arizona. Constructed primarily to allow sheep to be driven between grazing ranges on either side of the river.”
Wikipedia article Verde River Sheep Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1978 · 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.
Address. N of Carefree on Verde River, Carefree
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. structure
Census division. Cordes Lakes-Mayer
National Register reference number. 78000569 - 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Verde River Sheep Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,227 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 September 2019	Natural	100 acres	Tonto National Forest	MANTEROLA
2 September 1994	Natural	20 acres	Tonto National Forest	not named
5 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	not named
25 August 2020	Natural	4.0 acres	Tonto National Forest	MUDDY
21 August 2020	Natural	360 acres	Tonto National Forest	VERDE
1 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	TUCKER
8 July 2017	Natural	1,120 acres	Tonto National Forest	CEDAR
6 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	SHEEP

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Verde River Sheep Bridge: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Kaolin, Kaolin, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Manganese. 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
Chalk Mountain Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Kaolin	Occurrence	Gypsum, Kaolin
Gypsum and Kaolin Deposits	Kaolin, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Prospect
La Mccoy Group	Manganese	Prospect

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000569 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yavapai County	All 127 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.