Built in 1892. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The Felton Covered Bridge is a covered bridge over the San Lorenzo River in Felton, Santa Cruz County in the U.S. state of California. Built in 1892, the bridge employs a Brown truss structural system and is approximately 80 feet long.”
Wikipedia article Felton Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1892.
National Register reference number.73000451- 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
1902 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021998
Fires near this property
583 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 583 fires within 5 miles of Felton Covered Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 56 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
250
Equipment and vehicle use
132
Arson/incendiarism
56
Recreation and ceremony
42
Debris and open burning
34
Misuse of fire by a minor
24
Smoking
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
16
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Other causes
3
Natural
2
Firearms and explosives use
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
9 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
40 workings within 5 miles of Felton Covered Bridge: 16 past producers, 11 occurrences, 8 producers, 5 unknowns.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Gold, Limestone, General. 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
Felton, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 debris flow, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
At approximately 5:04 p.m. PST State Route 9 was closed from 1.2 miles north of Felton to 2.4 miles north of Felton due to downed power lines. The roadway reopened at 5:56 a.m. on January 3, 2011.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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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