Avondale Bridge

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Avondale Bridge was located in Avondale, Colorado spanning the Arkansas River. It was listed on the National Historic Register of Places.”
Wikipedia article Avondale Bridge (Arkansas River), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Pueblo County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure · built in 1913, by Pueblo Bridge Co..

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 327, Avondale, 81022
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Avondale
When was it built? 1913
Architect. Pueblo Bridge Co.
National Register reference number. 85000225 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

39 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Avondale Bridge between 2011 and 2020, burning about 852 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
30 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
3 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
26 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
2 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
26 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	N/A
23 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN
5 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pueblo Rural Fire District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Pueblo County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Avondale Bridge: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pueblo County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 1995	Hail	Avondale	$250,000	19,0300MST Slow moving thunderstorms with rain estimates of 4-5 inches and a lot of small hail resulted in extensive crop damage. Several roads were also washed out.
August 2024	Hail	Avondale	-	A public source reported hail of 1.5 inches in diameter.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Avondale	-	Heavy rainfall of 3.00 inches.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Avondale	-	Reports and photos of downed trees were taken in the town of Avondale. Time was estimated.
July 2021	Hail	Avondale	-	Golf ball to baseball size hail.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Avondale	-	Five empty rail cars were flipped. Power lines were down.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Avondale	-	Power Poles were knocked completely over, with excessive tree damage noted in the area.
July 2014	Flood	Avondale	-	The Arkansas River at Avondale went above flood stage, causing agricultural flooding.
August 2018	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
August 2013	Flash Flood	Avondale	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Avondale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pueblo 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

3 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
Huerfano Bridge	4.9 miles	1985
Boone Santa Fe Railroad Depot	5.0 miles	1997
St. Charles River Bridge	7.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000225 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pueblo County	All 69 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.