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General U.S. Grant Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Grant Bridge is the name of the two bridges that carry and have carried traffic on U.S. Route 23 between Portsmouth, Ohio and South Portsmouth, Kentucky across the Ohio River in the United States.”
Wikipedia article U.S. Grant Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Greenup County · listed in 2001 · 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. Ohio R.-Chillicothe and Second St., South Portsmouth, 45662
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. structure
Census division. South Shore
National Register reference number. 01000560 - 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

130 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of General U.S. Grant Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,790 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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
Debris and open burning	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Arson/incendiarism	24
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	PORTSMOUTH
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	ROSEMOUNT
14 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHEEP HOLL
1 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 July 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHURCH STR

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of General U.S. Grant Bridge: 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cyclops Corp/ New Boston, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Own Crews Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Portsmouth Works	Clay	Plant
South Shore Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this property

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Portsmouth, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	South Portsmouth	$3,000	Near the town of South Shore, a tree was blown down onto power lines, causing local power outages.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	South Portsmouth	$500	Trees and power lines were blown down in South Portsmouth.
May 2011	Hail	South Portsmouth	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bennett's Mill Covered Bridge	7.9 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenup County	All 18 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.