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Photograph of Royal Gorge Bridge
Photograph by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Royal Gorge Bridge and Incline Railway

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Royal Gorge Bridge is a tourist attraction in the United States near Cañon City, Colorado within Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, a 360-acre (150 ha) amusement park located along the edge of the Royal Gorge around both ends of the bridge. The bridge crosses the gorge 955 feet (291 m) above the Arkansas River and held the record of highest bridge in the world from 1929 until 2001 when it was surpassed by the Liuguanghe Bridge in China.”

Wikipedia article Royal Gorge Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure · built in 1929.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. NW of Canon City, Canon City, 81212
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Cañon City
  • When was it built? 1929
  • National Register reference number. 83001303 - 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

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Royal Gorge Bridge and Incline Railway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,499 acres in total. 65 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/undetermined179
Natural65
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreRoyal Gorge Field OfficePARKDALE
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
4 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFront Range District OfficeSOUTH RIM
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCanon City Area Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Royal Gorge Bridge and Incline Railway: 22 past producers, 19 occurrences, 19 producers, 9 prospects. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arkansas River Placers DistrictGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1932, 1945
Border FeldsparFeldspar, Silica, MicaPast Producer
Border Feldspar ProspectFeldspar, Quartz, Mica, Bismuth, BerylliumPast ProducerBeryl, Bismutite, Feldspar, Microcline, Muscovite, Quartz
Canon City Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Consolidated Feldspar Corporation MineFeldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), TantalumPast ProducerBeryl, Microcline, Muscovite
Copper Gulch DepositUranium, Copper, TungstenOccurrenceTorbernite
Devils Hole QuarryBeryllium, Mica, FeldsparProducer
Eight Mile Park DistrictFeldspar, Mica, Quartz, Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, BismuthPast ProducerFeldspar, Muscovite, Quartz, Beryl
Eight Mile Park pegmatite areaQuartz, Feldspar, MicaOccurrencePEGMATITES
Joker MineCopper, Silver, Zinc, GoldProspectChalcopyrite

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.

Listed places nearby

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Colorado Women's Prison4.6 miles1999
Deputy Warden's House4.7 miles2001
Mount Saint Scholastica Academy, East Building4.7 miles1998
Canon City State Armory4.7 miles1999
Canon City Municipal Building4.8 miles1983
McClure House4.8 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001303 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont CountyAll 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.