Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge

Built in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge is a Pegram through truss bridge over the Bear River near Grace, Idaho.”
Wikipedia article Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Caribou County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure · built in 1894.

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. Over the Bear R. 0.5 mi. NNW of jct. of ID 34 and Turner Rd., Grace, 83241
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Pegram Truss Railroad Bridges of Idaho MPS
Census division. Grace
When was it built? 1894
National Register reference number. 97000758 - 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 625 acres in total. 10 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	KING CANYON
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	NELSON RIDGE
5 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	BURTON
23 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	230 acres	Idaho Falls District	N GRACE
2 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	145 acres	Idaho Falls District	ALEXANDER
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	SAND POINT
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	SODA POINT
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	201 acres	Idaho Falls District	GRACE

Every fire recorded in Caribou 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 Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Past Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Caribou County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grace, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2004	Flash Flood	Grace	$5,000	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grace	-	Several public reports of wind damage in Grace to roofs, structures and power lines. Rocky Mountain Power reported 366 customers without power in the city of Grace.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grace	-	The Grace agrimet mesonet site recorded a 61 mph thunderstorm outflow wind.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grace	-	The Grace mesonet station recorded a 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust.
June 2023	Tornado (EF0)	Grace	-	The public submitted several photographs of a tornado touched down north of Grace near US Highway 30. It was a weak tornado and subsequent surveys noted zero damage as the tornado was in an open field.
August 2023	Hail	Grace	-	Quarter sized hail in Grace.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Grace	-	The GRAI1 mesonet site recorded a 59 mph thunderstorms outflow wind.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Grace	-	Four to 6 inch diameter branches blown off trees 6 miles south southeast of Grace.
June 1997	Funnel Cloud	Grace	-	Funnel cloud extended half way to ground.
June 1997	Hail	Grace	-	Hail nickel to golfball-size observed by sheriff and other storms spotters in Grace area.
June 1997	Heavy Rain	Grace	-	1.5 inches of rain and 1/4 inch hail from storm
June 2006	Hail	Grace	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Grace	-	no account filed
August 2004	Flash Flood	Grace	-	no account filed
July 2003	Wildfire	Grace	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caribou 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 97000758 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Caribou County	All 14 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.