West Antelope Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The West Antelope Bridge near Flora, North Dakota is a pin-connected Pratt pony truss structure that was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article West Antelope Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Benson County · listed in 1997 · 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.
Address. Across the Sheyenne River, unnamed co. rd., approximately 30 mi. SE of jct. of ND 30 and US 2, Flora, 58357
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Roadway Bridges of North Dakota MPS
Township. West Antelope township
National Register reference number. 97000171 - 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Antelope Bridge between 2013 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
10 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Fort Totten Agency	TIGER
2 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HVINDEN PASTURE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Storms near this property

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flora, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Flora	-	A number of trees were blown down along the Sheyenne Valley of South Viking Township. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensors.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Flora	-	Several trees and branches were blown down.
June 2017	Hail	Flora	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Flora	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Flora	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Viking Lutheran Church	5.1 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000171 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benson County	All 6 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.