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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1912.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
St. Joseph Bridge
Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4.4 mi. SE of Joseph City on Joseph City-Holbrook Rd., Joseph City, 86032
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
- Census division. Winslow-Holbrook
- When was it built? 1912
- National Register reference number. 88001633 - 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
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 10 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | not named |
| 14 August 1998 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Fort Apache Agency | BIGSKUNKCA |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast District | WASH |
| 8 July 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Heber-Overgaard Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 6 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Joseph City Fire District | 125 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph Bridge: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Hanson No1 | Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Anna Bernice Claims | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| P.Costen | Uranium | Unknown |
Storms near this property
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joseph City, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joseph City | $1,000 | A thunderstorm wind gust knocked down a medium sized tree on Main Street. |
| September 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Joseph City | - | Pictures of a funnel cloud near Joseph City and Jack Rabbit were posted on social media. |
| September 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Joseph City | - | A land-spout tornado was on the ground briefly south of the Little Colorado River. Dust from the ground was lofted into the air. |
| April 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Joseph City | - | A funnel cloud was observed (filmed) approximately 4 miles west-southwest of Joseph City. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Joseph City | - | Emergency Manager reported that flooding was impacting homes and shut down westbound lane of Interstate-40. Emergency shelter for people and large livestock established in Holbrook. |
| November 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Joseph City | - | A funnel cloud was seen from Joseph City. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Joseph City | - | Afternoon thunderstorms dropped heavy rain in the Joseph City area. A rain gage in the area measured 3.23 inches of rain from 3:00 pm to 4:23 pm. Forty four homes in Joseph City were damaged by flood waters, with fourteen homes deemed receiving major damage. Interstate 40 at mile post 277 was closed for one hour as two feet of water rested on the roadway. |
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 record | The nomination case file for reference 88001633 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.