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Photograph of State Bridge
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

State Bridge

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The State Bridge, at State Bridge, Colorado, off Colorado State Highway 131, was a two-span Howe truss bridge built in 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”

Wikipedia article State Bridge (Eagle County, Colorado), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Eagle County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure · built in 1890.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off CO 131, State Bridge, 80423
  • When was it listed? June 1985
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
  • Census division. Eagle-Gypsum
  • When was it built? 1890
  • National Register reference number. 85001401 - 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of State Bridge between 1993 and 2018, burning about 69 acres in total. 29 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
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1994Natural3.0 acresWhite River National ForestCRAZY HORSE
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigELK CREEK
23 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersWOLCOTT DIVIDE
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionCONGOR
29 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionEAGLE ASSIST 6
28 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionWATER WHEEL
25 August 1997Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigYARMONY

Every fire recorded in Eagle County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of State Bridge: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eagle RiverGoldOccurrencePlacer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mount SandersPumicePast Producer
Mount SaundersStone, DimensionOccurrenceScoria
QuarryStoneProducer
Rock Hat ClaimUraniumUnknown
Rio Grande & Copper QueenCopperOccurrenceChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Rio Grande & Copper QueenCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Eagle 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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Waterwheel4.8 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001401 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Eagle CountyAll 11 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.