Carbella Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Carbella Bridge was a historic bridge near Gardiner, Montana crossing the Yellowstone River in Park County. The bridge carried Tom Miner Creek Road.”
Wikipedia article Carbella Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2010 · 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. Milepost 0 on Tom Miner Rd. near jct of US 89, Gardiner, 59027
When was it listed? January 2010
Category. structure
Also known as. Montana's Historic Steel Truss Bridges
Census division. Gardiner-Cooke City
National Register reference number. 09001184 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Carbella Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. 18 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	18
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	YANKEE JIM
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	YANKEE JIM
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Park County	TOM MINER
8 August 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CINNABAR
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	BLACK MOUNTAIN
31 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	WIGWAM
3 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	DIVIDE
22 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	RED MOUNTAIN-

Every fire recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gardiner, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 wildfire. 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 2001	Wildfire	Gardiner	-	Little Joe Fire--Gallatin National ForestDate Started: August 24, 2001Cause of Ignition: LightningLocation: 20 miles east of Gardiner, MontanaSize: 860 acresContained: September 3rd, 2001Cost: $3 million

Every storm recorded in Park 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	John Hepburn Place	7.1 miles	2005
	OTO Homestead and Dude Ranch	7.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001184 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 35 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.
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.