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One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure · built in 1929.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Navajo Steel Arch Highway Bridge
Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. SW of Lee, Lee's Ferry, 86036
- When was it listed? August 1981
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
- Census division. Kaibab Plateau
- When was it built? 1929
- National Register reference number. 81000134 - 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
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Navajo Steel Arch Highway Bridge between 1994 and 2017, burning about 559 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | BRIDGE |
| 29 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | TRAILER |
| 15 July 2005 | Natural | 554 acres | Arizona Strip Field Office | MARBLE CYN |
| 4 June 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Glen Canyon National Recreation Area | LEES FERRY CAMPGROUND |
| 11 June 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Glen Canyon National Recreation Area | LEES FERRY |
| 29 May 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | KEATING |
| 24 April 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | JESSOP |
| 2 April 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Grand Canyon National Park | BADGER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Navajo Steel Arch Highway Bridge: 7 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Quartz, Copper, Bentonite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Pequito Mine | Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Foot of Echo Cliffs Area Bentonite | Bentonite | Occurrence | Bentonite | |
| Lees Ferry | Silica, Semiprecious Gemstone | Producer | Replacement | |
| Lees Ferry Gold | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Lees Ferry Mercury | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Maggie-Baker Riley | Semiprecious Gemstone, Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Snafu Claims | Quartz, Uranium | Prospect | ||
| El Pequito | Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| M-R Claims 1-14 | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Sandy No. 1, 2, and 3 Claims | Uranium | Occurrence | Float |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch | 4.1 miles | 1997 |
| Lonely Dell Ranch Historic District | 4.2 miles | 1978 | |
 | Lees Ferry | 4.5 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000134 in Record Group 79. |
| Coconino County | All 140 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.