Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“The Colton's Crossing Bridge, in Ransom County, North Dakota, United States, near Lisbon, North Dakota, also known as Sheyenne River Bridge, was built in 1907. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Colton's Crossing Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Ransom County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure · built in 1907.
Also known as. Historic Roadway Bridges of North Dakota MPS
Township. Big Bend township
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number.97000186- 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
9 since 2015
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Colton's Crossing Bridge
between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,151 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Colton's Crossing Bridge: 3 producers, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lisbon, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 33 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
A pickup was swept off North Dakota Highway 32 into Dead Colt Creek. The vehicle floated downstream and was eventually submerged resulting in one fatality by 8 am CDT.
A tornado touched down on a farmstead, destroying numerous buildings. One barn was destroyed and 60 hogs inside were killed. Power was knocked out. The tornado crossed highway 27 and dissipated.
Numerous trees were uprooted, power lines were downed, the roof blew off the armory, and the roof blew off the Ransom county highway department shop. A building at the fairgrounds was also damaged. Lisbon was without power from 5 to 9 pm.
Lightning struck the side of a house in Lisbon. The strike blew the telephone box off the side of the house and knocked a hole in the house foundation.
The Sheyenne River rose rapidly through central portions of Lisbon, in response to an ice jam which formed near the highway 27 bridge. Flood water rose above the moderate flood stage by 11 pm CDT and eventually crested above the major flood stage. Emergency levees had been constructed in advance and emergency crews were able to contain the flooding.
Around 4 inches of rain fell in less than three hours over several sections of farm and ranchland in northern Aliceton and southern Big Bend Townships. This primarily impacted the confluence of dead colt creek and the Sheyenne River. Several sections of farmland and farm access roads were flooded and ditches were filled to overflowing upstream of the confluence of Dead Colt Creek and the Sheyenne River. This is near the Dead Colt Creek Reservoir.
Over a dozen power poles were either cracked or snapped off along highway 32. Large steel grain bins were popped off their pads and crushed. Numerous large trees were snapped or uprooted in shelterbelts. One trailer home was tipped over. In addition, several sections of cropland across southern and central Aliceton Township were heavily damaged by wind driven hail. Widespread downburst winds of from 80 to 90 mph were likely with peak winds to 115 mph estimated at some locales.
Two or more funnels formed west-northwest of Lisbon. The funnels moved slowly to the west-northwest and passed north of Fort Ransom State Park. The funnels were formed in fairly high based thunderstorms and were visible from a distance. No touchdowns were observed.
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
5 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.
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.
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