Queen Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 100 National Register listings published here for Pinal 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 Florence Hwy. over Queen Creek, Florence Junction, 85118
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. North Pinal
National Register reference number. 88001643 - 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Queen Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,364 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	101
Smoking	14
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
29 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	SILVER KING
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	CONELY POINTS
24 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	QUEEN
20 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	DROMEDARY
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Tonto National Forest	KERR
16 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Queen Creek Bridge: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light Weight, Pumice, Aggregate, Light Weight, Tungsten. 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
Arizona Rhyolite	Volcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light Weight	Past Producer	Rhyolite
Arizona Rhyolite	Pumice, Aggregate, Light Weight	Producer	Rhyolite
Elephant Butte Mine	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper	Producer	1951
Elephant Butte and Whetrock	Copper, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 88001643 in Record Group 79.
Pinal County	All 100 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.