Pugsley Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Liberty County · listed in 2020 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Milepost 5.5 on Pugsley Bridge Rd., Chester, 59522
When was it listed? November 2020
Category. structure
Census division. Chester
National Register reference number. 100005746 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pugsley Bridge between 2017 and 2020, burning about 30 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
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
21 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Liberty County	STARR
17 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
26 April 2018	Other causes	under an acre	Central Land Office	not named
1 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Malta Field Office	MOFFIT

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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 Pugsley Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Eveland Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this property

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chester, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 1994	Hail	Chester	$50,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$50,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$5,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$2,000	no account filed
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$1,000	no account filed
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	The strong wind gusts caused a power outage.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	A 66 mph gust caused a power outage in Chester.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	Mesonet station CW1334 in Chester measured a severe caliber gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	Mesonet station FW9939 Chester measured a severe caliber gust.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	Mesonet station fw9939 Chester MT.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	Mesonet station FW9939 Chester MT.
April 2018	Flood	Chester	-	Public reported flooding along Cottonwood Creek in Chester.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	A mesonet site reported 52 knot wind gust.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	High wind gusts, estimated at 58KT (67MPH), were reported.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	High winds measured at 51KT (59MPH) were reported 13 mi N of Chester, MT.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	High winds measuring 50KT (58MPH) were reported 13 mi N of Chester, MT.
June 2013	Hail	Chester	-	Severe hail measuring 1.00 inches (approximately quarter sized) was reported 23 mi S of Chester, MT.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	High winds estimated at 50KT (58MPH) were reported to have damaged an airplane and a hangar in Chester, MT.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	High winds measuring 62KT (71MPH) were reported 2 miles E of Chester, MT.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	High winds measuring 52KT (60MPH) were reported at the Chester, MT courthouse.
June 2012	Hail	Chester	-	Quarter size hail, measuring 1.00 inches, was reported at Chester.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Chester.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 67 mph at Chester 7SE.
July 2008	Hail	Chester	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Chester 21NNE.
May 2008	Hail	Chester	-	A thunderstorm dropped 0.75 inch diameter hail at Chester 7N.
June 2008	Hail	Chester	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Chester 8SW.
June 2007	Hail	Chester	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Chester 23S.
July 2007	Hail	Chester	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Chester 26N.
August 2002	Hail	Chester	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 1.25 inch hail and crop damage near Chester.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
April 2003	Lightning	Chester	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
June 1996	Tornado (F0)	Chester	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
August 1995	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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 100005746 in Record Group 79.
Liberty County	All 4 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.