Miner Street Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1985 · 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. Miner St., Idaho Springs, 80439
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Idaho Springs
National Register reference number. 85000193 - 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Miner Street Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 499 acres in total. 14 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	14
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Fireworks	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVIL'S NOSE
4 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
30 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ECHO LAKE
17 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BARBOUR FORK
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SODA CREEK
11 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVILS NOSE
7 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	DEVIL
28 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	WHITTER

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Miner Street Bridge: 35 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Feldspar, Beryllium. 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
Bear Creek & Little Boss	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Free Gold	Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Tennantite
Grover	Beryllium, Niobium (Columbium), REE, Tantalum, Mica, Feldspar	Producer	Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Mica, Monazite, Tantalite
Grover	Uranium, REE, Zinc, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, Garnet	Occurrence	Beryl, Columbite, Gahnite, Garnet, Monazite, Tantalite
International	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Resolute Lode	Molybdenum, Tin	Past Producer
Santa Fe Mountain	Feldspar, Mica, Garnet, Beryllium	Past Producer
Santa Fe Mt., Sawmill Gulch	Beryllium, Garnet, Feldspar, Mica	Producer	Beryl, Biotite, Feldspar, Garnet
Solid Muldoon	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Little Warrior	Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clear Creek 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Evans-Elbert Ranch	1.8 miles	1980
Echo Lake Park	4.5 miles	1995
Idaho Springs Downtown Commercial District	5.6 miles	1984
Methodist Episcopal Church	5.7 miles	1998
Argo Tunnel and Mill	5.7 miles	1978
Bryan Hose House	5.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000193 in Record Group 79.
Clear Creek County	All 24 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.