Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge, in Amador County, California near Ione, California, is a Pony Pratt half-truss bridge built in 1910. It was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Amador County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
Listed as. Five Mile Drive--Sutter Creek Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Five Mile Drive, Ione, 95640
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. structure
Census division. Ione
National Register reference number. 86000734 - 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

1889 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,921 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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	77
Equipment and vehicle use	68
Debris and open burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 1999	Natural	10 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	0WENS
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	TWIN
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	SUTTER
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Amador-El Dorado Unit	124
7 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central California District	BUENA
5 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	JACKSON
5 September 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	HY
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amador-El Dorado Unit	HWY 88

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 151 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 151 workings within 5 miles of Five Mile Drive-Sutter Creek Bridge: 53 occurrences, 34 producers, 30 unknowns, 20 past producers. 34 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Gold, Copper, Silica. 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
Amador Lime Rock	Limestone, General	Producer
Bacon Pit	Pumice	Producer
Fancher	Gold, Clay	Producer
Hayward	Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Ione	Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Antimony	Past Producer	Stibnite
Ione Clays	Iron, Silica, Aluminum, Water, Free	Past Producer	Surface
Ione Pit and Mill	Zirconium, Titanium, Kaolin	Producer	1954
Newton	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1863
Newton	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Underground
Unidentified Prospects	Gold, Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite, Gold

Every working recorded in Amador County

Storms near this property

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ione, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2023	Funnel Cloud	Ione	-	The public reported a funnel cloud near Ione.

Every storm recorded in Amador County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

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.

1889 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1941 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500
1962 USGS Ione quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Sutter Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Scully Ranch	0.1 miles	1978
Preston Castle	1.3 miles	1975
George and Eliza Withington House	1.3 miles	2015
Ione City Centenary Church	1.4 miles	1977
C.W. Swain House	1.4 miles	2014
Preston School of Industry	1.4 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000734 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Amador 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.