BlockFrom 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
Mineral Creek Bridge
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. Old US 77 over Mineral Creek, Kelvin, 85137
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
- Census division. North Pinal
- National Register reference number. 88001648 - 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
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 5 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 | 29 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Smoking | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 27 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 16 August 2020 | Natural | 590 acres | Gila District Office | ELDER |
| 12 August 1994 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 10 August 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Superior Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 73 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Mineral Creek Bridge: 27 past producers, 20 producers, 15 occurrences, 10 prospects. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A,B,C Group | Silver, Aluminum, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, Manganese, Gold, Silica, Limestone, General | Prospect | ||
| Alice Property | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Almino | Tungsten, Manganese | Occurrence | Psilomelane | |
| Apex No.1 and 2 | Copper, Stone, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| C and B Group Bywater Mine? | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium | Producer | ||
| Copper Ace Group | Copper, Silica, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Elder Gulch Prospects | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Gran Copper | Copper, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Chalcocite, Chrysocolla | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Grayhorse Vanadium Property | Lead, Vanadium, Zinc, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Descloizite, Galena, Vanadinite, Wulfenite |
Storms near this property
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelvin, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2000: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelvin | $20,000 | Power poles blown down at Kelvin. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kelvin | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power poles in Kelvin. |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kelvin Bridge | 1.3 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001648 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.
- 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.