Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Hereford Bridge spans the San Pedro River near Hereford, Arizona, and was built in three stages. The first one was built in 1912-1913, consisting of a single span truss, with steel cylinder piers as supports.”
Wikipedia article Hereford Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1912.
National Register reference number.88001659- 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
90 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Hereford Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,782 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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
49
Natural
21
Recreation and ceremony
7
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Debris and open burning
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
7 September 2009
Natural
under an acre
Gila District Office
RAMSEY WASH
19 September 2009
Natural
3.0 acres
Gila District Office
COPPER GLANCE
18 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Fry Fire District
NOT NAMED
16 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Gila District Office
STONE
13 September 1999
Natural
under an acre
Gila District Office
OAK
6 August 1992
Natural
1.0 acres
Gila District Office
HEREFORD
6 August 1992
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Hereford Bridge: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hereford, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood.
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.
Several roads were flooded in the Bisbee and Hereford area due to heavy rainfall. In addition tons of gravel, rock and debris from the slopes of Zacatecas Canyon turned Brewery Gulf in Bisbee into a river. Trained spotters in Hereford reported two inches of rain in 45 minutes and 2.25 inches of rain in 75 minutes.
Cochise County Sherriff reported flash flooding along East Madera Road in Sierra Vista resulting in a road closure. The road reopened at 9am on July 23rd.
Widespread rain of 2 to 4 inches fell along the San Pedro River in southern Cochise County and upstream in Sonora on November 27th into the 28th, causing the river to rise markedly on the morning of November 29th. The river neared flood stage at Palominas, but did not come out of its banks. Farther downstream, the San Pedro River flooded Hereford Road on the east side of the bridge, but did not over top the bridge itself. However, the road was closed for several hours.
Numerous reports were received from trained spotters regarding very heavy rainfall with amounts of 1 to 2 inches falling in less than 45 minutes. There were reports of 6 to 8 inches of water flowing through streets and yards in Sierra Vista and Hereford.
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 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.
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.
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