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Photograph of Dolores River Bridge
Photograph by Thad Roan from Littleton, CO, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dolores River Bridge

Built in 1952. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Dolores River Bridge was a through truss bridge that spanned the Dolores River near Bedrock, Colorado, United States. It carried State Highway 90 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Dolores River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure · built in 1952.

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 90 at milepost 15.22, Bedrock, 81411
  • When was it listed? October 2002
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Nucla
  • When was it built? 1952
  • National Register reference number. 02001150 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Dolores River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 27 started naturally. None was 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
Natural27
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseDAVIS
7 August 2000Natural1.5 acresSouthwest District, MontroseBEDROCK
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseGLORY
5 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBED ROCK
5 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseDAVISMESA
5 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseBEDROCK
5 August 2002Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseDOLORES RI
22 August 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseDOX

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Dolores River Bridge: 23 occurrences, 18 past producers, 13 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cashin MineSilver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Uranium, Zinc, Arsenic, AntimonyProducer1896, 1898, 1972
CliffdwellerCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Cliffdweller MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1975
La Sal DistrictCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Uranium, Antimony, Arsenic, ManganeseProducer1896, 1899, 1975
New CashinCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
ParadoxCopper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Carmack PotashPotassiumPast Producer
DenverGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Park #23-2PotassiumPast Producer
Unknown WellSodiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Montrose County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedrock, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 debris flow. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2002Flash FloodBedrock$3,000no account filed
April 2023FloodBedrock$2,000Montrose County Government Facebook post reported the X4 Road to the Cashin Cooper Mine was closed due to flooding from increased snowmelt.
October 2005Tornado (F1)Bedrock$1,000no account filed
May 2023FloodBedrock-The boat ramp at Bedrock along the Dolores River was inaccessible due to flooding on the river.
July 2013Debris FlowBedrock-Heavy rainfall resulted in a mudslide across Highway 90 near the community of Bedrock.
September 2013HailBedrock-Quarter sized hail was reported on Highway 90 east of Bedrock.
July 2006Flash FloodBedrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montrose 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hanging Flume7.8 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001150 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montrose CountyAll 28 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.