Bluewater Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 81 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2011 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 8 on Bluewater Cr. Rd., Fromberg, 59029
When was it listed? April 2011
Category. structure
Also known as. Reinforced Concrete Bridges in Montana, 1900-1958 MPS
Census division. East Carbon
National Register reference number. 11000223 - 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bluewater Creek Bridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 566 acres in total. 5 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	12
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
22 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Carbon County	BLUE WATER
9 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Billings Field Office	ROUND BUTTE
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Crow Agency	RESORT
5 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Land Office	235 LOWER RIVER RD
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	824 COONEY DAM
4 August 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	WHEAT
22 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Carbon County	19-9347
14 August 2006	Natural	30 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CUTACROSS

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fromberg, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 7 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2013	Flash Flood	Fromberg	-	There was a partial washout on Cherry Springs Road, as well as debris covering Selms Road.
May 2001	Hail	Fromberg	-	.88 inch hail reported by law enforcement.
May 2001	Hail	Fromberg	-	.75 inch hail...with hail 1 1/2 feet deep. Reported by spotters.
July 1999	Hail	Fromberg	-	Spotter report of hail as large as ping pong ball size.
July 1998	Hail	Fromberg	-	Dime to quarter sized hail reported.
July 2019	Hail	Fromberg	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Fromberg	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Fromberg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gebo Barn	1.6 miles	2005
Fromberg Concrete Arch Bridge	1.7 miles	1993
John Blewett House	1.8 miles	1993
Northern Pacific Railroad Depot-Fromberg	1.9 miles	1993
Baldwin Building	2.0 miles	1993
IOOF Hall and Fromberg Co-operative Mercantile Building	2.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000223 in Record Group 79.
Carbon County	All 81 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.