Dead Indian Canyon Bridge

Built in 1934 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Dead Indian Canyon Bridge, near Desert View in Coconino County, Arizona, is a Warren truss bridge built in 1933 as part of developing public highway approach from the east to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Dead Indian Canyon Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1934, National Park Service rustic.

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. Abandoned grade of US 64 over Dead Indian Canyon, Desert View, 86020
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Tuba City
When was it built? 1934
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 88001603 - 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dead Indian Canyon Bridge between 1994 and 2012, burning about 9 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	RIDGE
21 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	S.O.B.
9 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
5 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	DEER
8 June 1996	Arson/incendiarism	6.5 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	GRAYMTN01
25 June 2004	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	BOUNDRY
19 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	GRAY MOUNTAIN
1 June 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	TEE

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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 Dead Indian Canyon Bridge: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 88001603 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.