Hell Canyon Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1988 · 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. Abandoned US 89 over Hell Canyon, Drake, 86334
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Prescott
National Register reference number. 88001682 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hell Canyon Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 20 started naturally. None 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 2016	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	BORROW
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	PAGE
1 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority	NOT NAMED
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	not named
5 August 1994	Natural	30 acres	Prescott National Forest	not named
28 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	STONE
19 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	HELL CANYON
19 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	WAGON TIRE

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hell Canyon Bridge: 7 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Volcanic Materials, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Ruth Claims	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect Near United States Mine	Vanadium, Molybdenum, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Scoria
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Scoria
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Drake	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Limestone Canyon	Limestone, General	Occurrence	SEDIMENTARY

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this property

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Flash Flood	Drake	-	Heavy rain over the Rafael Fire caused a 4 foot rise on the Verde River at Clarkdale (an increase of at least 1,300 CFS).
August 2018	Flash Flood	Drake	-	The river gauge on Big Chino Wash at Highway 89 measured a 4 foot rise at 5:40 PM.

Every storm 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
	Little Hell Canyon Bridge	7.1 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001682 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.
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.