Walnut Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1989 · 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. Forest Service Rd. over Walnut Creek, Simmons, 86305
When was it listed? March 1989
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Prescott
National Register reference number. 88001673 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 11 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
28 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	PAULDEN
18 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	SHAGGY
2 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	WOODLAND
13 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	CHUCKS
1 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument	SBI VAN FIRE
1 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Prescott National Forest	GRAVERS
29 July 1996	Natural	3.0 acres	Prescott National Forest	NIPER
23 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	BALD

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Walnut Creek Bridge: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead. 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
	Silver Belle	Gold, Silver, Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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.

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Walnut Creek Ranger Station	1.4 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001673 in Record Group 79.
Yavapai County	All 127 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.