Black Squirrel Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Black Squirrel Creek Bridge carries U.S. 24 over Black Squirrel Creek in El Paso County, Colorado. Prior to 2012, it was locally known as the "green bridge" or "old green bridge" - a historic single-span, Parker through truss bridge that was completed in 1935 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article Black Squirrel Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 98 National Register listings published here for El Paso 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. US 24 at milepost 327.33, Falcom, 80831
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
Census division. Black Forest-Peyton
Architect. Colorado Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 02001158 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Black Squirrel Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 736 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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	56
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	PEYTON
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	PEYTON
29 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Falcon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
26 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
2 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	PEYTON
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	PEYTON

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Black Squirrel Creek Bridge: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001158 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
El Paso County	All 98 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.