Big Horn River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Big Horn River Bridge is a site on the National Register of Historic Places located in Custer, Montana. It was added to the Register on January 4, 2010.”
Wikipedia article Big Horn River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Treasure 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 2 on MT 104 (Old US 10), Custer, 59024
When was it listed? January 2010
Category. structure
Also known as. Montana's Historic Steel Truss Bridges
Census division. North Treasure
National Register reference number. 09001188 - 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Big Horn River Bridge between 2008 and 2020, burning about 82 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	1
Natural	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
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone County	I94 POMPEYS PILLAR AREA
4 August 2018	Natural	25 acres	Southern Land Office	JUNCTION CITY
28 August 2008	Smoking	40 acres	Southern Land Office	not named
21 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.6 acres	Billings Field Office	57
10 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yellowstone County	CUSTER &MUSSELSHELL
28 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Southern Land Office	DORN
10 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Southern Land Office	ARENA
24 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	MM55 I 94

Every fire recorded in Treasure 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 09001188 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Treasure County	All 3 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.