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Black River Bridge

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Black River Bridge near Carrizo, Arizona was funded in 1911 and built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Black River Bridge (Carrizo, Arizona), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Gila County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1929.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Indian Rt. 9 over Black River, Carrizo
  • When was it listed? September 1988
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
  • Census division. Fort Apache
  • When was it built? 1929
  • National Register reference number. 88001619 - 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

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Black River Bridge between 1993 and 2019, burning about 465 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
21 September 1995Natural2.5 acresSan Carlos AgencyPHILLIPS
6 August 1995Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agency7-MILE
5 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyMAVERICK
4 August 2000Natural150 acresSan Carlos AgencyBRONCO
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyBLACK RIVER
16 August 2013Naturalunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyTUDDLE
10 August 2012Natural4.0 acresSan Carlos AgencyPOPCORN
1 August 2016Natural1.0 acresSan Carlos AgencyBRONCO

Every fire recorded in Gila 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 Black River Bridge: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Horse MesaStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this property

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrizo, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2024Flash FloodCarrizo-The river guage on Carrizo Crreek showed a rapid 2 foot rise starting at 6 PM on August 22 and peaked at 1100 PM. The flow decreased and leveled out around 400 AM on Agust 23.
September 2021Flash FloodCarrizo-Carrizo Creek near Carrizo (CRZA3) rose from 1 to 3.7 feet in less than an hour. The water dropped back below 2 feet about 3 hours later.
July 2020Flash FloodCarrizo-A stream gauge on Carrizo Creek reported a 2.4 foot rise in water.
August 2019Flash FloodCarrizo-The river gauge on Cibecue Creek showed a 2.15 foot rise from 1:15AM MST to 1:30AM MST.
July 2018Flash FloodCarrizo-Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar caused a flash flood in Cedar Creek. The water reached 5 feet deep. Rainfall over the the town of Cedar creek also washed out private driveways.
July 2018Heavy RainCarrizo-Several driveways were washed out in town because the water flow from the heavy rain was more than the culverts in the ditch could handle.
July 2017Flash FloodCarrizo-Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar produced flash flooding in Carrizo Creek. The river gauge at Carrizo peak rose to 10 feet (215 PM MST). The creek was back down to 5 feet by 330 PM MST.
June 2016Flash FloodCarrizo-Radar estimated 1.50 to 2.50 inches of rain over the central part of the Cedar Fire scar starting around 530 PM MST. A 4 to 5 foot flood crest reached the Highway 73 bridge at the town of Cedar Creek at 720 PM MST.
July 2015Flash FloodCarrizo-USGS river gauge measured a 5 foot rise in Carrizo Creek near Carrizo between 500 PM and 600 PM MST. The maximum flow reached 2470 CFS in a creek that usually runs less than 100 CFS.
August 2007Flash FloodCarrizo-Heavy rain caused a rock slide that close Highway 60 at mile marker 321. Flash flooding was observed on State Route 73. Huston Creek overflowed in Star Valley and flooded about 20 homes and/or trailers.

Every storm recorded in Gila 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 88001619 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gila CountyAll 43 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.