Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
From the record
“Moores Creek Bridge is an historic single span reinforced concrete bridge located on North 2nd Street between Avenues B and C in Fort Pierce, Florida. It is known locally as the Tickle Tummy Bridge or Tickle Tummy Hill because of its high arch relative to its short length.”
Wikipedia article Moores Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Lucie County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.01000890- 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.
Then and now
1949 to 1988
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19491988
Fires near this property
90 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Moores Creek Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 601 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 6 were 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
23
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Railroad operations and maintenance
13
Recreation and ceremony
6
Arson/incendiarism
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Debris and open burning
3
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Moores Creek Bridge: 13 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer.
13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fort Pierce, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail.
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.
Severe thunderstorms dropped baseball-size hail near Oslo Road, 10 miles southwest of Vero Beach, and near Fort Pierce. Numerous cars were damaged and windows were broken in two mobile homes.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
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