Bridgeport Covered Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

“The Bridgeport Covered Bridge is located in Bridgeport, Nevada County, California, southwest of French Corral and north of Lake Wildwood. It is used as a pedestrian crossing over the South Yuba River.”
Wikipedia article Bridgeport Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Nevada County · listed in 1971 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. SW of French Corral over S. Yuba River, French Corral, 95946
When was it listed? July 1971
Category. structure
Census division. Grass Valley
National Register reference number. 71000168 - 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.

Then and now

1888 to 2000

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 112 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Bridgeport Covered Bridge, surveyed 2000

Topographic sheet covering Bridgeport Covered Bridge, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport Covered Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,358 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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	103
Equipment and vehicle use	99
Debris and open burning	79
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Smoking	10
Other causes	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
9 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	JOHN
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Central California District	UNNAMED FIRE 1887
8 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	1140 TRAILS
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	BRIDGEPORT
7 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	3.2 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	PLEASANT
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit	DEL MAR
6 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Central California District	WOLEMAN
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Central California District	PEAK

Every fire recorded in Nevada County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport Covered Bridge: 29 occurrences, 26 past producers, 11 unknowns, 9 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron. 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
Berkeley Prospect	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Antimony, Sulfur, Arsenic	Past Producer	1904
Big Bend	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Cadmus	Gold, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
French Corral District	Gold, Platinum, Silver, Diamond	Past Producer	1850
Red Ledge Cons	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Gold, Pyrite
South Yuba	Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Gold
Iron Location	Iron	Occurrence
Iron Location	Iron	Occurrence
Berkley Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Big Bend	Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in Nevada County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names French Corral, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 heavy rain, 1 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
December 2025	Flood	French Corral	-	California Highway Patrol reported a rock slide from heavy rain blocking the road in the southbound lane of Pleasant Valley Road near South Yuba River State Park.
December 2021	Heavy Rain	French Corral	-	Two boulders blocked state route 49 near Nevada City, CA reported by CHP. Reported storm total rainfall amounts in the area were in excess of 3 inches.

Every storm recorded in Nevada County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1888 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Smartsville quadrangle1:125000 - 6 printings
1948 USGS French Corral quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Nevada City quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1950 USGS French Corral quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Yuba City quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS French Corral quadrangle1:24000
2000 USGS French Corral quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000168 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nevada County	All 22 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.