Fred Robinson Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Fred Robinson Bridge in Montana is a four-span steel-girder bridge over the Missouri River between Fergus County and Phillips County that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. It is the "best documented" bridge in Montana and is "magnificent", according to its NRHP nomination.”
Wikipedia article Fred Robinson Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Fergus County · listed in 2012 · 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.
Listed as. Robinson, Fred, Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Mi. 88, US 191, Lewiston, 59524
When was it listed? March 2012
Category. structure
Also known as. Montana's Steel Stringer and Steel Girder Bridges MPS
National Register reference number. 12000171 - 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fred Robinson Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 83 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	THE CAMP
14 September 1997	Natural	1.5 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	BELLRIDGE
7 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	ROADSIDE
5 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	ELK
4 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	SANDFIDDLER
29 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	AUTO TOUR ROUTE
21 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	323 FIRE
12 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge	KNOX RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Fergus 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 12000171 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fergus County	All 48 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.