Douglas Crossing Bridge

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

From the record

“The Douglas Crossing Bridge, near Granada, Colorado, was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Douglas Crossing Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Prowers 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. Cty. Rd. 28, Granada, 81041
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Two Butte Creek
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 85000224 - 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

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Douglas Crossing Bridge in 2013, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	3

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
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Prowers County Rural Fire Department	UNKNOWN
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Prowers County Rural Fire Department	UNKNOWN
20 March 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Prowers County Rural Fire Department	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Prowers County

Storms near this property

60 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granada, the town this property stands in, in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 41 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 4 heavy rain. 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
July 1996	Tornado (F0)	Granada	$50,000	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Granada	$20,000	Wind-driven hail broke windows of vehicles and houses.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	$5,000	A few power lines were downed around Granada.
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Granada	$5,000	A tornado occurred over open country in north central Prowers County...narrowly missing ranch buildings. Some fencing was destroyed.
May 1994	Hail	Granada	$50	Hail up to tennis-ball size fell south of Granada (17 miles east of Lamar), breaking a car windshield.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	A public source reported a measured wind gust of 70 kts, and snapped tree branches, down power poles, damage to side of a barn.
May 2024	Hail	Granada	-	A public source via mPing, reported hail of 1 inch in diameter.
June 2023	Tornado (EF3)	Granada	-	A well documented strong and long lasting EF-3 tornado meandered across Prowers County south of Granada, Colorado, on June 23, 2023, remaining over open countryside for most of its life. Early during the tornadoes lifespan, it heavily impacted a family farm. Two wooden barns were completely destroyed, with little evidence \|remaining of them other than the outline where they once stood. A metal farm outbuilding was virtually gone, with only the twisted steel beam reinforcements remaining. The primary family house was completely destroyed, with only a part of an interior wall still in place. After impacting the family home, the tornado continued to the southeast and knocked down power lines along County Road 25 before heading back into open countryside and dissipating.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	Large tree blown across both lanes of Highway 50.
March 2021	Heavy Rain	Granada	-	Heavy rain of 1.50 inches.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Granada	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.34 inches, most of which occurred within 30 minutes.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	Granada station.
May 2020	Tornado (EFU)	Granada	-	Chaser reported a tornado south of Granada. Tornado was on the ground for a few minutes before lifting. No reports of damage as the tornado was over open fields.
August 2020	Hail	Granada	-	Trained spotter reported large hail, the size of 1.25 inches.
August 2020	Hail	Granada	-	Broadcast Media reported large hail, 2 inches.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Granada	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.5 inches fell over 35 minutes.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Granada	-	Heavy rainfall of 1.4 inches fell.
July 2018	Hail	Granada	-	Two windows broken due to hail and wind. Also, widespread tree damage.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	US 50 closed near Granada due to fallen tree blocking all lanes.
April 2017	Tornado (EFU)	Granada	-	A brief landspout tornado was witnessed by a trained spotter. The tornado caused no damage from which the NWS could assign an EF-scale rating.
July 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Granada	-	The tornado occurred over open country and caused no known damage.
April 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Granada	-	Two supercells occurred in central and northern Prowers County between 4:20 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. At approximately 4:30 p.m., a funnel cloud was reported several miles southwest of Granada. At 5:25 p.m. a large, slow moving, slowly rotating tornado moving approximately three miles between ranch houses southwest of Granada. There was no known damage.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Granada	-	Heavy rain from nearly stationary thunderstorms brought ponding of water over six inches deep to the Granada area in Prowers County.
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	Granada	-	A short-lived tornado caused no known damage.
May 1997	Funnel Cloud	Granada	-	A trained weather spotter saw a funnel cloud moving south toward Granada.
July 2023	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Granada	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Granada	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Prowers 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 85000224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Prowers County	All 16 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.
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.