Cedar Canyon Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Cedar Canyon Bridge is a steel arch highway bridge on US 60 near Show Low, Arizona. The 180-foot (55 m) span ribbed girder arch bridge was built in 1937-38 with a total length of 250 feet (76 m).”
Wikipedia article Cedar Canyon Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1988 · 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. US 60 over Cedar Canyon, milepost 323.4, Show Low, 85902
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Fort Apache
National Register reference number. 88001612 - 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Canyon Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 367 acres in total. 127 started naturally. 6 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	127
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	WIG-WAM
8 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	NAVAJO CO.
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	LONGTOMCAN
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	CEDARCAN
29 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Fort Apache Agency	LUCY CANYO
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	BEAR WALLO
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	LITTLE SPR
29 September 2000	Natural	19 acres	Fort Apache Agency	HOP CANYON

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Canyon Bridge: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Kaolin. 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
	Cedar Mesa Tank	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Sedimentary
	Mine	Kaolin	Unknown

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Show Low, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 flood, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Lightning	Show Low	1 killed	A 54 year old man was walking along the south edge of Scott Reservoir with two other people when he was stuck and killed by lightning.
August 2004	Lightning	Show Low	1 hurt	A woman was hit by lightning outside her home in Show Low. She was knocked unconscious for a short time and couldn't feel her legs when she regained consciousness. She was taken to the hospital for testing. She was able to return to work a few days later even though she still has some pain in her legs and back.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Show Low	-	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flooding on State Route 260 on the south side of Show Low. A car got stuck in the high water. Flooding was also reported east of Show Low near Highway 60 and Little Mormon Lake Road meet and on to the Second Knoll Shooting Range (Forest Road 206).
August 2018	Hail	Show Low	-	One inch diameter hail was reported in the west part of Show Low.
September 2016	Hail	Show Low	-	Trained spotters reported one half inch to one inch diameter hail covering the ground between 2 and 8 miles north of Show Low.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Show Low	-	A thunderstorm produced 1.75 inches of rain in about an hour at White Mountain Lake. Some small debris washed onto roads.
July 2008	Hail	Show Low	-	A weather spotter 8 miles southwest of Show Low reported 3/4 inch diameter hail.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Show Low	-	Flash flooding caused the closure of east bound Highway 60 about 7 miles east of Show Low. Debris was cleared from the road and it was reopened by 520 PM.
August 2001	Funnel Cloud	Show Low	-	A funnel cloud was reported by an employee at a Show Low radio station. The funnel cloud extended half way to the ground near Porter Mountain.
August 1997	Flood	Show Low	-	Minor flooding in the Show Low area.
August 1996	Flood	Show Low	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Pinedale Ranger Station	2.3 miles	1993
	Corduroy Creek Bridge	4.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001612 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Navajo County	All 46 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.