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Photograph of Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge
Photograph by UltraSparky, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge

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

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure · built in 1894.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Over the Snake R. 1 mi. NNE of jct. of Heise Rd. and East Belt Branch RR tracks, Ririe, 83442
  • When was it listed? July 1997
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Pegram Truss Railroad Bridges of Idaho MPS
  • Census division. Ririe
  • When was it built? 1894
  • National Register reference number. 97000759 - 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
29 September 2018Fireworks6.8 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHEISE
19 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictRIVERSIDE
4 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictRIRIE BNCH
4 August 1992Smokingunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictKELLY
16 August 1995Natural2.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHEISE
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresIdaho Falls DistrictARCHER
4 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictELK HORN
4 July 1992Other causesunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictTWIN BRDGS

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Gold. 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
Heise Gold PlacerGoldPast Producer1875
Elkhorn Warm SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Hawley Warm SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel Pit, Id Hwy DptSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Id Hwy DptSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wheeler Pit No 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ririe, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRirie$9,000Jefferson County Dispatch reported multiple trees down across far eastern Jefferson County. No injuries or fatalities reported.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRirie$3,000Large tree limbs broken off in Ririe and fell into roads. One tree was downed on wires.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRirie-Wooden stockade fences were blown over in Ririe.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Ririe B Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge0.4 miles1997
Ririe Community Hall3.0 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson 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.