Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Allentown Bridge, in Apache County, Arizona, is a bridge which, in 1988 at least, existed and spanned the Puerco River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Allentown Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1923.
National Register reference number.88001617- 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
117 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Allentown Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,494 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning
45
Natural
35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Smoking
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Fireworks
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Allentown Bridge: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Geothermal, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Houck, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 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.
Heavy rain over Interstate 40 between Sanders and Lupton caused up to one foot of water to accumulate on the road (between mile markers 354 and 359). Initial reports indicated that several cars were stopped along the highway. However, DPS only saw one car stopped when they arrived and the water had receded.
Swift water rescue was conducted around 350 PM to rescue a driver in 2.5 to 3 feet of water on Interstate 40 due to flooding of Black Creek near Houck. The I-40 frontage road (dirt) on the north side was impassible due to flooding through at least 630 PM.
An Arizona Department of Transportation wind sensor on Interstate 40 near Lupton reported a wind gust of 58 MPH at 632 PM. A cold front was moving across the area and there were thunderstorms in the vicinity at that time.
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.
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.
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