Dinkey Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Dinkey Creek Bridge, also known as Fresno County Bridge No. 42C-04, is a single-span, timber bowstring arch truss bridge that crosses Dinkey Creek in Fresno County, California, within Sierra National Forest. Built in 1938, it closed to automobile traffic in 1965 and was renovated in 1988 to replace rotting timbers.”
Wikipedia article Dinkey Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Fresno County · listed in 1996 · 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.
Address. Off Dinkey Creek Rd., W of Camp Fresno, Sierra National Forest, Dinkey Creek, 93634
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. structure
Census division. Sierra
National Register reference number. 96000911 - 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

1904 to 2004

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dinkey Creek Bridge, surveyed 2004

Topographic sheet covering Dinkey Creek Bridge, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Dinkey Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	65
Natural	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	FRESNO
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	DINKEY
6 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	BALD
6 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	ROCK
5 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	TRAIL
5 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	BALD
4 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	CABIN
4 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Sierra National Forest	REESE

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Dinkey Creek Bridge: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Stone, Silver. 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
Forest Service Providence Quarry	Stone	Producer
Richter	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Last Hope	Gold	Occurrence
Providence	Gold	Occurrence
Dinkey Creek	Tungsten	Past Producer
Dinkey Creek	Tungsten	Past Producer
Dinkey Creek Mine	Tungsten	Past Producer	Scheelite
Homer's Tungsten and Little Uncle	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Homers Tungsten Quartz Claim	Tungsten	Occurrence
Joe Sadler	Tungsten	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1904 USGS Kaiser quadrangle1:125000 - 8 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Huntington Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Shaver Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1982 USGS Dinkey Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1993 USGS Dinkey Creek quadrangle1:24000
2004 USGS Dinkey Creek quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000911 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fresno County	All 44 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.