Slate Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Slate Creek Bridge is a riveted steel Parker pony truss bridge spanning the Blue River 9 miles (14.5 km) north of Silverthorne, Colorado. It is named after the road it carries, Slate Creek Road.”
Wikipedia article Slate Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Summit 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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Cty. Rd. 1450 over Blue River, Slate Creek, 80498
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
Census division. Silverthorne
National Register reference number. 85001402 - 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

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Slate Creek Bridge between 1996 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 13 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
16 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Dillon Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	UTE PEAK
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	FLATTOP MOUNTAIN
31 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	ACORN CREEK
28 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	BLUE RIVER
23 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	BOULDER CREEK
2 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	White River National Forest	ROCK CREEK
17 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	SLATE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Summit 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 85001402 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 8 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.