Alchesay Canyon Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 467 National Register listings published here for Maricopa County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. AZ 88 over Alchesay Canyon, milepost 241.1, Roosevelt, 85545
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Tonto National Forest
National Register reference number. 88001615 - 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Alchesay Canyon Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,553 acres in total. 43 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	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Recreation and ceremony	18
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2017	Natural	231 acres	Tonto National Forest	YELLOW JACKET
4 September 2013	Natural	173 acres	Tonto National Forest	PINION
25 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	BOAT
22 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	BACHELOR
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Monument	NATIONAL
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	NATIONAL
9 August 1993	Natural	23 acres	Tonto National Forest	not named
8 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	BUCKING

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alchesay Canyon Bridge: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper, Zeolites. 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
Christmas Gift M S 4587	Gold	Past Producer
Pinnacle Claims	Copper	Prospect
Roosevelt Lake Phillipsite	Zeolites	Prospect
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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

1 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
	Pine Creek Bridge	5.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001615 in Record Group 79.
Maricopa County	All 467 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.