Photograph of Adelaide Bridge No 10 — Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bridge No. 10/Adelaide Bridge

Built in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure · built in 1894.

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. Fremont Cty. Rd., Florence, 81240
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Penrose-Portland
When was it built? 1894
National Register reference number. 85000208 - 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Bridge No. 10/Adelaide Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 809 acres in total. 43 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	43
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
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
2 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	PHANTOM 2
17 September 2000	Natural	65 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	COOPER MTN
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	NIPPLE MTN
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	FELCH
6 August 2002	Natural	2.5 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	CLYDECABIN
29 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	DUNVILLE
28 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Royal Gorge Field Office	MID TREE
28 August 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Royal Gorge Field Office	HOLBERT

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bridge No. 10/Adelaide Bridge: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Feldspar, Uranium, Manganese. 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
Bond Ranch Mine	Tungsten	Past Producer	Wolframite
Brandt Claims	Uranium, Vanadium	Occurrence	Carnotite, Tyuyamunite
Brandt Claims	Uranium, Vanadium	Unknown
Phantom Canyon Prospect	Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Beryllium, Mica	Producer	Beryl
Phantom Lode	Feldspar, Mica, REE, Niobium (Columbium), Fluorine-Fluorite, Tantalum, Beryllium	Past Producer	1938, 1939
Phantom Lode	Feldspar, Beryllium, Mica, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Unknown	Mica, Feldspar	Past Producer
Beaver Creek Occurrence	Uranium	Occurrence
Dell	Manganese	Prospect
Dell Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer	Psilomelane, Pyrolusite

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1993	Hail	Florence	$500	Severe thunderstorms rumbled through portions of southeast Park and Fremont Counties. Hail up to 2.00 inches fell over the area, breaking windows in Canon City and south of Florence. The hail also damaged roofs of residences in Canon City.
January 2024	Flood	Florence	-	Received call from Mykel Kroll, Fremont County Emergency Manager, notifying us of some minor flooding occurring along the Arkansas River in Florence from an ice jam downstream. Inundation of low-lying areas mostly occurred between the river and County Rd 119 in the town of Florence. No other impacts reported.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Florence	-	Flooding along CR 13A.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Florence	-	Flooding along Hwy 115 near Pathfinder Park.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence	-	Six power poles were blown down.
July 2020	Hail	Florence	-	Hail of 1.75 inches.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Florence	-	State patrol reported that there was debris and flooding over highway 115 at mile marker 7.
August 1993	Hail	Florence	-	Severe thunderstorms rumbled through portions of southeast Park and Fremont Counties. Hail up to 2.00 inches fell over the area, breaking windows in Canon City and south of Florence. The hail also damaged roofs of residences in Canon City.
August 1993	Hail	Florence	-	Severe thunderstorms rumbled through portions of southeast Park and Fremont Counties. Hail up to 2.00 inches fell over the area, breaking windows in Canon City and south of Florence. The hail also damaged roofs of residences in Canon City.
June 2015	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
September 2015	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Florence	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Florence	-	no account filed

Every storm 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 85000208 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.