Eagle River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Eagle County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

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. US 6 at milepost 150.24, Eagle, 81631
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
Census division. Eagle-Gypsum
National Register reference number. 02001156 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Eagle River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,638 acres in total. 160 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
Natural	160
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73
Recreation and ceremony	28
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Eagle County	EBY CREEK
7 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	MCHATTEN
7 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	HOCKET GLC
6 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	H SCRABBLE
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	HIGHWAY 6
5 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	MCHATTEN
4 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	COTTNWD IV
28 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Greater Eagle Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Eagle River Bridge: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Anthracite. 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
Brush Creek	Silver	Past Producer
Ground Hog Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Anthracite	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pits	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Eagle County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2007	Flash Flood	Eagle	$2,000	Water and mud came down a drainage from the north and flowed across all lanes of Interstate 70 and continued across Highway 6. The flow of water and mud covered a 175 yard stretch of Interstate 70 and Highway 6 and was up to 4 feet deep when it struck the interstate. Two cars on Interstate 70 were stuck in 1.5 feet deep mud which was up to 3 feet deep in the west-bound lanes. The west-bound lanes of the interstate were closed for about 6 hours, while HIghway 6 and the east-bound lanes of the interstate were closed for a shorter period of time.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Eagle	$2,000	Heavy rainfall in the Sylvan Lake State Park area resulted in a flash flood. The flood came down from the east and was filled with debris that flowed up to 8 feet in depth down a normally dry drainage called Sneeve Gulch. Unofficial rainfall measurements of just over 2 inches came from the State Park Service. The flash flood widened the gulch from about 10 feet to 30 feet. The flash flood crossed USFS Road 400 and a Park Service tributary road. When the flash flood struck the main road, the culverts were immediately clogged with debris and the flow of water and debris went across the road, causing errosion to the road and depositing several feet of debris on the road. An 8 foot high berm adjacent to the Park Service tributary road was 10 feet in length prior to the flash flood. After the flood the berm was 70 feet in length. The debris within the flash flood included trees up to 2 feet in diameter and boulders up to 4 feet in diameter. About 80 people were trapped at the Sylvan Lake State Park campground that night. The flash flood came close to a couple of State Park structures. Otherwise, there was no significant property damage except to the USFS Road 400 where the culverts needed to be replaced.
August 1998	Flash Flood	Eagle	$500	no account filed
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Eagle	-	no account filed
August 2002	Flood	Eagle	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	Eagle	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Eagle	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eagle 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	First Evangelical Lutheran Church	7.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001156 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.