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Photograph of Cameron Suspension Bridge
Photograph by Clément Bardot, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cameron Suspension Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Cameron Suspension Bridge crosses the Little Colorado River at Cameron, Arizona, United States.”

Wikipedia article Cameron Suspension Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1986 · 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. Carries US 89 over the Little Colorado River, Cameron, 86020
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
  • Census division. Tuba City
  • Architect. Midland Bridge Company, Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • National Register reference number. 86001206 - 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cameron Suspension Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBBQ
4 July 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCAMERON 1
23 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBULLOCK
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementS CAMERON
2 July 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementLITTLECO 2
10 July 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCoconino National ForestMEETING
21 June 1999Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMP464HWY89
16 June 2020Debris and open burning129 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSE CAMERON

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Cameron Suspension Bridge: 22 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Molybdenum, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Huskon #1 MineUranium, Vanadium, Copper, MolybdenumPast ProducerCarnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Huskon #2 MineUranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, CopperPast ProducerCarnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Huskon #3 MineUranium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, CopperPast ProducerCarnotite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Alyce TolinoUranium, MolybdenumPast Producer
Alyce Tolino MineUranium, MolybdenumPast ProducerCarnotite, Ilsemannite, Umohoite, Uraninite, Uranophane, Zippeite
Jack Daniels No. 1Uranium, MolybdenumPast ProducerUraninite, Uranophane, Zippeite
A & B No2UraniumPast Producer
A & B No3UraniumPast Producer
Boyd Tisi 2 - Juan Horse 3UraniumPast Producer
Casey No3UraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2005Tornado (F0)Cameron$10,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCameron$1,000A photo of a broken 4 inch diameter tree branch was at the Cameron Trading post was posted on-line. Storm lasted from 530 PM to 7 PM.
July 2022Flash FloodCameron-Heavy rain fill a wash with water four feet deep in Cameron.
July 2022Flash FloodCameron-A storm chaser posted a video of flash flooding in the Cameron area on Twitter.
August 2021Flash FloodCameron-The Little Colorado River gauge near Cameron (LCCA3) showed a 2.9 foot rise between 815 PM and 1100 PM MST.
August 2019Flash FloodCameron-Training thunderstorms produce at least 4 inches of rain over desert and rocky terrain. This caused flash flooding in Tappan Wash up to 20 feet deep in the narrow gouge under Highway 64. A river gauge on the Little Colorado River downstream measured a 5 foot rise 15 minutes (730 to 745 PM). This was an increase of 2,911 CFS. A total rise of 5.7 feet was measured in an hour and 45 minutes (a total rise of 3213 CFS rise).
October 2018Flash FloodCameron-Heavy rain and flowing water through a box culvert under US Highway 89 caused the roadway to collapse. The collapsed road caused a fatal vehicular collision. A 15 mile section of Highway 89 (from Cameron to the Highway 160 Junction) was closed while the road could be repaired.
July 2012HailCameron-Golf ball sized (1.75 inches in diameter) fell at the Cameron Trading Post.
August 2005HailCameron-3/4 inch diamiter hail was reported in Cameron.
August 2005HailCameron-Dime sized (3/4 inch diameter) hail was reported by a Department of Public Safety officer about 10 miles west of Cameron along State Route 64.
August 1999HailCameron-Coconino County law enforcement officers reported 0.75 inch diameter hail accumulating across Highway 89, three miles south of Cameron.
September 1995HailCameron-A thunderstorm piled up hail two inches deep on State Highway 64 creating icy road conditions and caused several collisions. Three-quarter inch hail up to two inches deep was reported in the same area.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001206 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino CountyAll 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.
  • 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.