Union Covered Bridge

Built in 1967. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Union Covered Bridge State Historic Site is a Missouri State Historic Site in Monroe County, Missouri. The covered bridge is a Burr-arch truss structure built in 1871 over the Elk Fork of the Salt River.”
Wikipedia article Union Covered Bridge State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1970 · category: Structure · built in 1967.

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. 6 mi. W of Paris on Elk Fork of the Salt River, Paris, 65275
When was it listed? June 1970
Category. structure
Township. Jackson township
When was it built? 1967
National Register reference number. 70000342 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Union Covered Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 245 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 August 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	135816-06949-04172016-2131
29 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	134991-06949-03292016-2000
29 March 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 March 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179547-06902-03272019-1510
27 March 1992	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
20 March 1997	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Union Covered Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 21 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2004	Hail	Paris	$10,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$400	High wind gusts knocked down power lines and poles. Power outages were reported at the sheriff office.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$200	Several utility poles were blown down causing power outages.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds snapped a pole off and lifted a shed into a home in town. Also, several power lines were blown down around town.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees across the intersection of Highway 15 and U.S. Highway 24, just north of Paris.
April 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Paris	-	Another tornado, about half a mile south of the first tornado, briefly touched down on County Road 835, half a mile north of the intersection with County Road 840. A barn sustained minor to moderate damage, where 2x4 missiles were driven into the roof of the barn. Width of damage was 30 to 40 yards wide with a path length of less than a tenth of a mile. The tornado was rated EF0.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs and blew over a picnic table destroying it.
October 2009	Flash Flood	Paris	-	Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads in Paris were flooded.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down around town.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines north of Paris.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a 2 foot and 1 foot diameter tree on Cooper Street. A large tree limb was also downed on the grounds of the Monroe County Courthouse. The "Stihl" sign in front of Ed's Hardware was blown down by the wind.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, tree branches and power lines in Paris.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Missouri Highway Department reported a tree down blocking the westbound lane of Route AA.
May 2002	Hail	Paris	-	Amateur radio spotters reported golfball size hail in Paris.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The County Sheriff reported trees down in Paris.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Sheriff Department reported trees uprooted in Paris.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	County Sheriff reported a few large trees down in town.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	Amateur radio spotters reported trees down blocking Highway 15 south of Paris.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	The Monroe County Sheriff reported trees down in Paris.
June 2018	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Paris	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
	Paris Male Academy	6.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000342 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe County	All 8 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.