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One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Walnut Canyon 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. Townsend-Winona Hwy., Winona, 86004
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
- Census division. Flagstaff
- National Register reference number. 88001660 - 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
201 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Canyon Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,979 acres in total. 109 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 109 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 32 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | WILD |
| 6 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | SUN BEAM |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Coconino National Forest | RANCH |
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | RECYCLER |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | PAPA |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | STING |
| 4 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | WILDCAT |
| 4 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | TUFA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Canyon Bridge: 8 past producers, 6 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | Cinders | |
| Baker Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | Cinders | |
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Darling Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winona, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 wildfire. 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 1997 | Flood | Winona | $1,000 | Minor flooding of dirt roads and ponding of water in Winona. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Winona | - | A flash flood covered I-40 between mile post 217 and 219 near Twin Arrows. Several traffic accidents reported. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Winona | - | Heavy rain (up to 5 inches) caused flooding along Townsend-Winona Road. One home had two inches of water in it. |
| July 2000 | Wildfire | Winona | - | Lightning started a forest fire about 3 miles north of Winona (16 miles east of Flagstaff) on July 24. The Power Fire burned about 1500 acers in pinyon and juniper trees and grassland. Air tankers, helicopters, and about 70 people contained the fire by the evening of July 27. |
| September 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Winona | - | A witness of this brief tornado was interviewed by a channel 3, a local TV station, the day of the event. In the interview, the witness described the rope like tornado descending from the cloud, and touching the ground twice in an open field. |
| September 1997 | Flood | Winona | - | Several thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flooding on several secondary roads and one lane of eastbound Interstate 40 through Winona was closed due to flooding for one hour. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Walnut Canyon Dam | 4.4 miles | 1979 |
| Walnut Canyon Dam | 4.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Walnut Canyon National Monument | 5.5 miles | 1966 |
 | Old Headquarters | 6.0 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001660 in Record Group 79. |
| Coconino County | All 140 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.