Morley Bridge

Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Morley Bridge, also known as the Romley Bridge, located near Romlee in Chaffee County, Colorado, is a wrought-iron pin-connected Pratt truss bridge that was built in 1881. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”
Wikipedia article Morley Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chaffee County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure · built in 1881.

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. Chaffee Cty Rd. 297 at milepost 2.40, Romley, 81236
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
Census division. Salida
When was it built? 1881
National Register reference number. 03000744 - 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

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Morley Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	ALPINE
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chaffee County	ALPINE LAKE
15 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	COAL CREEK
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	COAL CAMP
3 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sedgwick Volunteer Fire Department	UNKNOWN
31 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
23 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	COAL CAMP
23 June 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	IRON CITY

Every fire recorded in Chaffee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Morley Bridge: 23 past producers, 7 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead. 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
Alpine No One	Granite	Past Producer
Alpine Tunnell Old	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Beryl Gem Claims	Beryllium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)	Occurrence	Vein
Black Hawk	Copper, Zinc, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Brittle Silver	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Carey Mill	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Garfield Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Graphite	Graphite	Producer	Graphite
Iron Chest Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Kentucky Belle-Baby Gerald Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chaffee 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
	St. Elmo Historic District	2.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000744 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chaffee County	All 46 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.