Toston Bridge

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Toston Bridge is a site on the National Register of Historic Places spanning the Missouri River, on an abandoned segment of old U.S. It was added to the Register on July 20, 2005.”
Wikipedia article Toston Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Broadwater County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1920.

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. Spanning the Missouri R, on abandoned segment of old US 287, at Toston, Toston, 59643
When was it listed? July 2005
Category. structure
Census division. Townsend East
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 05000720 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Toston Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.1 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	MISSOURI RIVER
2 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
11 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	not named
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Broadwater County	GREAVES ROAD
28 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	INDIAN CREEK
4 July 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
15 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
24 June 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Broadwater County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Toston Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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
Cleo	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Kolberg Mill	Gold	Plant
L and R Placer	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Broadwater County

Storms near this property

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toston, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Toston	-	Mesonet station MTM83 Toston Sw2 measured a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Toston	-	Toston MT mesonet measured a 64 mph wind gust.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Toston	-	Mesonet station MTTOS Toston Bridge Us-287 Mp 87.0 measured a 62 mph gust.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Toston	-	Local officials report roads closed due to downed power lines and trees.
June 2019	Hail	Toston	-	Pea-size to quarter-size hail cover the ground.
July 2013	Hail	Toston	-	Hail measuring 1.25 inches (half dollar sized) was reported in Toston, MT.
June 2011	Hail	Toston	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Toston 14E.
August 2009	Hail	Toston	-	A thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Toston.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Toston	-	A severe thunderstorm near Toston tore the roof off a shed. The roof traveled 75 feet, before landing on top of a vehicle.
August 2002	Hail	Toston	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 1.75 inch hail at Toston 13SW.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Toston	-	Peak wind gust estimated at least 60 mph as Agrimet automated station reported 57 mph winds averaged over 15 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Broadwater 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 05000720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broadwater County	All 11 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.