Rouch Gulch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 50 at milepost 230.12, Swissvale, 81201
When was it listed? November 2002
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
Census division. Cotopaxi
National Register reference number. 02001410 - 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Rouch Gulch Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 12 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florence Fire Protection District	N/A
18 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Arkansas Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
16 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Howard Fire Department	N/A
28 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Howard Fire Department	N/A
26 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	HOWARD
22 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	RINCON
21 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
17 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	SAND

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Rouch Gulch Bridge: 14 past producers, 11 occurrences, 8 producers, 4 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Limestone, General. 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
Calcite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium	Past Producer
Grand View Mine	Copper, Tungsten, Gold	Past Producer	1890, 1905
Howard Prospect	Feldspar, Silica	Past Producer
Howard Sand Gulch	Feldspar, Silica	Past Producer
Taylor Gulch Quarry	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Limestone
Unknown	Marble, Dimension	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Vol-Poz #1-3	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Ash
Wellsville Warm Spring	Geothermal	Unknown
G L Davis	Magnesite, Tungsten	Past Producer
G.L. Davis Mine	Tungsten, Magnesite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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 02001410 in Record Group 79.
Fremont County	All 25 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.