Photograph of Bridge over Burro Cañon — Photograph by Jeffrey Beall from Colorado, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bridge over Burro Canon

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Bridge over Burro Cañon, near Madrid, Colorado, was built in 1936. It carries Colorado State Highway 12, a main route linking La Veta with Trinidad, over an arroyo.”
Wikipedia article Bridge over Burro Cañon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Las Animas County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure · built in 1936.

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. CO 12, Madrid, 81082
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Weston
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 85000216 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Bridge over Burro Canon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 122 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 were 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	14
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
11 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Las Animas County	not named
26 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
17 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	WESTON
15 June 2013	Natural	11 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
15 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
14 June 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Las Animas County	not named
16 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
12 May 2013	Natural	under an acre	Stonewall Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Las Animas County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bridge over Burro Canon: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Las Animas 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

2 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
	Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and Medina Cemetery	3.2 miles	2019
	Cokedale Historic District	6.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000216 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Las Animas County	All 26 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.