South Canon Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The South Canon Bridge is a former truss road bridge spanning the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It was built in 1915 by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co..”
Wikipedia article South Canon Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.

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. Cty. Rd. 134, Glenwood Springs, 81601
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Glenwood Springs
National Register reference number. 85000212 - 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of South Canon Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,725 acres in total. 70 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	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	RED MUD
8 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	RAILROAD
8 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	BEAR WALLO
7 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	W S CANYON
29 September 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	TRAIL
20 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	OASIS CREEK
16 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	CHACRA
15 September 2007	Natural	15 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	ROCKN PINES

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of South Canon Bridge: 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, 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
Glenwood Lime Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Glenwood Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Jammeron Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Revelation Group	Uranium	Unknown
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Unknown	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
East Canyon Creek	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
Canyon (Canon) Creek School, District No. 32	2.6 miles	2004
Hotel Colorado	4.4 miles	1977
Citizens National Bank Building	4.5 miles	1999
Western Hotel	4.6 miles	2016
Glenwood Springs Hydroelectric Plant	4.6 miles	1998
Edward T. Taylor House	4.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000212 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield County	All 20 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.