Sperry Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Latah County · listed in 2024 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Sperry Grade Road, Kendrick, 83537
When was it listed? October 2024
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Truss Highway Bridges of Idaho MPS
Census division. Troy-Juliaetta-Kendrick
National Register reference number. 100010900 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Sperry Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,371 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HAY TRUCK
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SPERRY PINE
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MIDDLE POTLATCH II
26 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	REBAR
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	PARKS
23 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	SPERRY GRADE
15 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	AMERICAN RIDGE
14 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	AMERICAN RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sperry Bridge: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Wild Rose Limestone	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Limestone

Every working recorded in Latah 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

6 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
Kendrick Downtown Historic District	0.3 miles	2018
Kendrick Fraternal Temple	0.4 miles	2013
Thomas Kirby House	0.6 miles	1999
Cox Barn	2.7 miles	2010
Bank of Juliaetta	3.3 miles	1998
Abram A. Adams House	3.5 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010900 in Record Group 79.
Latah County	All 58 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.