Bad Route Creek Bridge

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Bad Route Creek Bridge is a historic bridge which carries County Road 261 across the Bad Route Creek in Dawson County, Montana. The Security Bridge Company built the bridge on behalf of the Montana Highway Department in 1921-22.”
Wikipedia article Bad Route Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Dawson County · listed in 2011 · 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. Milepost 20 on Cnty. Rd. 261, Fallon, 59330
When was it listed? April 2011
Category. structure
Also known as. Reinforced Concrete Bridges in Montana, 1900-1958 MPS
Census division. Glendive
When was it built? 1920
National Register reference number. 11000224 - 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

17 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Bad Route Creek Bridge between 2004 and 2020, burning about 703 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	3
Other causes	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 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	84 acres	Miles City Field Office	MAIN
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Prairie County	HATCHETT - PRAIRIE
31 August 2011	Natural	328 acres	Miles City Field Office	TOWER
21 August 2020	Other causes	2.0 acres	Prairie County	CLARK - PRAIRIE
16 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Miles City Field Office	RAILROAD
12 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Eastern Land Office	CANAL
12 August 2010	Natural	22 acres	Miles City Field Office	STICKEL
11 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	5.1 acres	Eastern Land Office	MM 191

Every fire recorded in Dawson 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 11000224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dawson County	All 12 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.