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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Eagle County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure · built in 1935.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Dotsero Bridge
Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. I-70 Service Rd. at milepost 133.51, Dotsero, 81637
- When was it listed? October 2002
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Eagle-Gypsum
- When was it built? 1935
- National Register reference number. 02001155 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
154 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Dotsero Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,497 acres in total. 105 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 105 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | BLOWOUTHIL |
| 7 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | LYONS |
| 4 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | DEEP CREEK |
| 3 September 2004 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | BLOWOUT H2 |
| 25 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | RUMBLE |
| 21 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | FOSSIL |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Northwest District, Grand Junction | DOTSERO |
| 2 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | BURNT TREE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 15 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Dotsero Bridge: 8 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Pit-Porto-Mix | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Dotsero Quarry | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Dotsero Warm Srpings | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | Ash | |
| Vesuvius, Lava | Gold | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand and Gravel | |
| Blowout Hill | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Deep Creek | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Dotsero Crater | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | Scoria |
Storms near this property
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dotsero, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 1 wildfire, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dotsero | $12,000 | Severe thunderstorm outflow winds destroyed a barn when a well secured roof was blown off. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Dotsero | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Dotsero | - | The Colorado River experienced elevated flows due to snow melt runoff from June 5th to the end of the month. Flood advisories or warnings were in effect through most of this time, with a few brief exceptions when the river fell just below bankfull. The main area of concern was from the confluence with the Eagle River near Dotsero to the County line just above Glenwood Canyon. Water quickly rose on the evening of June 6th when flood warnings were issued and remained in place through June 10th. Highway 6 at Dotsero was closed due to the high water levels reaching the bottom of the bridge. The river continued to reach or exceed bankfull conditions through the end of the month, except the period of June 19th through the 24th when cooler weather reduced the heavy runoff. Lowland flooding was reported through the month and some sandbagging of residential areas were required from near Gypsum to Dotsero. |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Dotsero | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | First Evangelical Lutheran Church | 5.9 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02001155 in Record Group 79. |
| Eagle County | All 11 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.