Little Hell Canyon Bridge

Built in 1923. 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 · built in 1923.

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 Little Hell Canyon, Drake, 86320
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS
Census division. Ash Fork
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 88001684 - 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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Little Hell Canyon Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 22 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	22
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
5 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	not named
9 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	JUNIPER
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	HELLS
26 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District	ESTATE
26 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	not named
19 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	WAGON TIRE
18 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	JUNIPER

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Little Hell Canyon Bridge: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Stone, Dimension, Magnesite. 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
Adak	Gold, Silver, Tungsten	Prospect
Olivine Basalt Pits	Magnesite	Unknown
Rattlesnake Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Scoria
Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Scoria
Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Scoria
Olivine Basalt Pits	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer

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
	Hell Canyon Bridge	7.1 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001684 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.