Hutchins Bridge

Built in 1902. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Hutchins Bridge, spanning the Madison River in Madison County, Montana near Cameron, Montana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”
Wikipedia article Hutchins Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1902.

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. Across Madison R., Cameron, 59720
When was it listed? March 1999
Category. structure
Census division. Madison Valley
When was it built? 1902
National Register reference number. 99000344 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hutchins Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 7 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	7
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	HYDE CREEK
4 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	HALF PINT
28 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
28 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
28 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	not named
17 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	STANDARD CREEK
24 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest	STANDARD CREEK 5
22 July 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Central Land Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hutchins Bridge: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
	Black Butte Deposit	Iron	Prospect	1957
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Cameron	-	Mesonet station divm8 18.1 nw Lakeview.
June 2020	Heavy Rain	Cameron	-	Mesonet station shcm8 22.3 Virginia City.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	Mesonet recorded 61-mph thunderstorm wind gust 2-miles SSW of Cameron.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	Mesonet station 2-miles SSW of Cameron recorded 59-mph peak gust from thunderstorm.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	Mesonet station 22-miles SW of Cameron recorded 58-mph peak gust from thunderstorm.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	Raynolds Pass mesonet reported 66 mph thunderstorm gust.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured at the Ennis fish hatchery.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	High winds measuring 55KT (63MPH) were reported at the Dillon Portable RAWS #2.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 70 mph at Cameron 12S.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cameron	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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 99000344 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 18 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.