Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Old Trails Bridge is a historic bridge over the Colorado River in San Bernardino County, California and Mohave County, Arizona in the United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It has also been known as Topock Bridge and as Needles Bridge.”
Wikipedia article Old Trails Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Mohave County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.88001676- 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
70 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Old Trails Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,164 acres in total. 5 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
45
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Arson/incendiarism
5
Natural
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
Fireworks
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
29 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
328 acres
Lake Havasu Refuges Complex
SACRAMENTO
12 September 1999
Natural
20 acres
Lake Havasu Refuges Complex
CATFISH
8 August 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Old Trails Bridge: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Topock, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 13 flood, 11 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
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.
Heavy rain in the Sacramento Wash basin produced high flows in the wash, which covered the Oatman-Topock Highway with mud and water and damaged 50 boat slips at the Topock 66 Spa and Resort on the Colorado River.
The Oatman-Topock Highway was closed due to flooding at the Sacramento Wash. The first evidence of flooding was a webcam picture at 6 AM, but the actual start time is unknown.
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.
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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