Cherry Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Cherry Creek Bridge is a concrete arch bridge spanning Cherry Creek near Franktown, Colorado. Monaghan & Associates and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Cherry Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2002 · 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. CO 83 at milepost 46.30, Franktown, 80116
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
Census division. Parker
National Register reference number. 02001147 - 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Creek Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,271 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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	64
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	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 1994	Natural	under an acre	Douglas County	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Castle Rock Fire & Rescue Department	UNKNOWN
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
3 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
21 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Castle Rock Fire & Rescue Department	UNKNOWN
19 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Castle Rock Fire & Rescue Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Creek Bridge: 12 producers, 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 4 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Russellville Gulch Placer	Gold	Past Producer	1858
Claypit	Clay	Producer
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Unnamed Gold Occurrence	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Unnamed Gold Occurrence	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Placer
Unnamed Gold Occurrence	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Placer
Unnamed Gold Occurrence	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Leonard Mine	Manganese	Occurrence	Psilomelane
Leonard Mine	Manganese	Unknown	1952
R E Coulter	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

59 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franktown, the town this property stands in, in 59 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 49 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
June 1999	Hail	Franktown	3 hurt, $3,000,000	Large hail, up to golfball size and accumulating several inches deep, caused a large section of a corrugated metal roof of a greenhouse complex to collapse. About a third of the roof covering the 30,000 square foot building collapsed. Thirty five workers were trapped in the debris, 3 people were treated for minor injuries. Hail piled up 1-2 feet deep blocked the roadways, slowing down emergency vehicles. Damage to the building was estimated to be around $3.0 million.
September 1996	Lightning	Franktown	1 hurt	no account filed
July 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Franktown	-	Lasted about 90 seconds. Damage to the roof (was removed) of a commercial building.
October 2025	Hail	Franktown	-	The report was received from MPING.
June 2014	Lightning	Franktown	-	A fast moving thunderstorm sparked a small grassfire.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Franktown	-	The combination of heavy rain, coupled with extremely saturated ground conditions, produced additional flash flooding.
June 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Franktown	-	A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
June 2006	Tornado (F0)	Franktown	-	A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Franktown	-	A trained observer reported that a culvert and several to roads were washed out. In addition law enforcement officials reported that two driveways crossing Cherry Creek in and near Praire Canyon Ranch were washed out. Heavy rains caused flash flooding at Castlewood Canyon State Park near Franktown. The floodwaters wiped out four footbridges along the high trail.
June 2024	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2021	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Franktown	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Franktown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

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
Pike's Peak Grange No. 163	5.6 miles	1990
Samuel Dyer House	7.1 miles	2016
Castle Rock Elementry School	7.1 miles	1984
Benjamin Hammar House	7.1 miles	1993
First National Bank of Douglas County	7.3 miles	1995
Keystone Hotel	7.3 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 24 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.