Solomonville Road Overpass

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Greenlee 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. Old Safford Rd., 3.6 mi. S. of Clifton, Safford, 85533
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Clifton
National Register reference number. 88001625 - 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Solomonville Road Overpass between 1994 and 2020, burning about 343 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
6 August 1995	Natural	15 acres	Gila District Office	MESA TANK
26 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila District Office	OLD SAFFORD
2 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Gila District Office	RATTLESNAKE
6 July 1994	Arson/incendiarism	320 acres	Gila District Office	YORK
3 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Gila District Office	GUTHRIE MT
16 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila District Office	GREENLEE
15 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WATER CANYON
8 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila District Office	TRUCK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Greenlee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Solomonville Road Overpass: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Geothermal, Copper. 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	Recorded
ADOT Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Copper Bar Shaft and Adit	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Gila Hot Springs Group	Manganese, Barium-Barite	Producer	1938
Chase Creek Placers	Gold	Producer	Placer
Clifton - Morenci Placer Deposits	Gold	Producer	Gold
Clifton Copper Mines	Geothermal	Unknown
Gillard Hot Spring	Geothermal	Unknown
Red Rock Claims	Manganese, Copper	Occurrence	1953
Gila Hot Springs Claim	Manganese	Past Producer	1954
Pyrolusite No. 1	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greenlee 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Solomonville Road Overpass	0.5 miles	1988
Gila River Bridge	2.4 miles	1988
Black Gap Bridge	3.8 miles	1988
Clifton Townsite Historic District	4.2 miles	1990
Park Avenue Bridge	4.3 miles	1988
Clifton Casa Grande Building	4.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001625 in Record Group 79.
Greenlee County	All 10 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.