Lewis and Clark Bridge

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Lewis and Clark Bridge is a historic bridge in Wolf Point, Montana, which once carried Montana Highway 13 across the Missouri River between McCone and Roosevelt counties. It is also known as Wolf Point Bridge, Missouri River Bridge, or Site No. 24RV438.”
Wikipedia article Lewis and Clark Bridge (Wolf Point, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for McCone County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure · built in 1930.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Over the Missouri R., MT 13, Wolf Point, 59201
When was it listed? November 1997
Category. structure
When was it built? 1930
National Register reference number. 97001451 - 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Lewis and Clark Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,607 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 were 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	34
Fireworks	26
Arson/incendiarism	19
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
7 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Fort Peck Agency	FARMERS
3 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.8 acres	Fort Peck Agency	EMACON
28 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	SHERMAN
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	WPLAGOON
22 September 2012	Smoking	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	TULE
20 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	BILLS TOW
17 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fort Peck Agency	300 FAIRWEATHER
8 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fort Peck Agency	RIVER

Every fire recorded in McCone County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lewis and Clark Bridge: 5 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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 97001451 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McCone County	All 2 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.