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Photograph of Sevenmile Bridge
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sevenmile Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Sevenmile Bridge is a Pratt deck truss bridge bringing a county road over the Rio Grande, 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Creede, Colorado, United States. It was designed by engineer King Burghardt and is unusual for its cantilevered ends.”

Wikipedia article Sevenmile Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Mineral 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. County Rd. 6 miles SW of Creede, Creede, 81130
  • When was it listed? July 1985
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
  • Census division. Creede
  • National Register reference number. 85001552 - 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sevenmile Bridge between 1992 and 2015, burning about 2 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 1992Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National Forestnot named
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMineral County Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
2 August 2010Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestOSO
8 July 1994Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National Forestnot named
10 July 1998Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestFARMERS CREEK
30 June 2006Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestFIR CREEK
24 June 2008Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestSEEPAGE
23 June 2015Naturalunder an acreRio Grande National ForestFIR CREEK

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Sevenmile Bridge: 29 past producers, 9 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Gold, Lead, Zinc. 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
Antelope Warm SpringGeothermalProducer
Bethel ClaimSilver, Gold, LeadOccurrenceGalena
CorsairSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Cowboy Johnson AditSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincOccurrence1979, 1980
Little Gold Dust ClaimGold, ManganeseOccurrence
Monon MineSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer1914, 1941
Paris TunnelSilver, GoldOccurrenceUnderground
UnknownClayOccurrenceBentonite
Alpha MineSilver, Antimony, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1883, 1892
Corsair MineSilver, Gold, Antimony, Copper, Lead, ZincProducer1883, 1892, 1940

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creede, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008LightningCreede1 killedno account filed
October 1997Tornado (F2)Creede$10,000no account filed
August 2024Heavy RainCreede-Public reported 1.00 inch of total rainfall. Rain fell yesterday afternoon through last night.
August 2022Debris FlowCreede-Mud slide over highway 149 blocking northbound lane.

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Zang's Hotel and Annex5.2 miles2022
Bachelor-Commodore Mine Complex6.1 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001552 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mineral CountyAll 6 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.