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Photograph of Gunnison River Bridge I
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gunnison River Bridge I

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Gunnison County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 50 Service Rd. at milepost 155.41, Gunnison, 81230
  • When was it listed? October 2002
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
  • Census division. Gunnison
  • National Register reference number. 02001152 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Gunnison River Bridge I between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural4
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseHARTMAN
30 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseHARTMAN ROCK
29 September 2018Firearms and explosives use10 acresSouthwest District, MontroseABERDEEN QUARRY
30 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseCHANCE GULCH
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGUNNISON
10 August 1992Naturalunder an acreSouthwest District, MontroseANTELOPE
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Gunnison River Bridge I: 8 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Quartz, Feldspar. 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
Gunnison DistrictGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperOccurrenceVein
Rooftop #1Quartz, FeldsparOccurrenceFeldspar, Quartz
UnknownFeldspar, QuartzUnknown
UnknownPumiceUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gunnison, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 3 wildfire, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2004Heavy RainGunnison$40,000no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodGunnison$30,000no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodGunnison$15,000no account filed
June 2012Heavy RainGunnison-A thunderstorm dropped over a third of an inch in under a half of an hour, and produced some small hail as it moved through the city of Gunnison on the afternoon of the 28th.
July 2007Heavy RainGunnison-A thunderstorm produced .75 inches of rain in 30 minutes resulting in 1 inch of water over Highway 135.
June 2002WildfireGunnison-no account filed
July 2002WildfireGunnison-no account filed
July 2002WildfireGunnison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gunnison 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

5 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
Gunnison River Bridge II0.2 miles2002
Edgerton House1.2 miles1998
Vienna Bakery-Johnson Restaurant1.6 miles2005
Webster Building1.6 miles1984
Fisher-Zugelder House and Smith Cottage1.7 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001152 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gunnison CountyAll 21 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.