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Photograph of Fairview Lift Bridge
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Fairview Lift Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Fairview Lift Bridge, also known as Great Northern Railway Bridge 3.2, was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”

Wikipedia article Fairview Lift Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for McKenzie 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. Over the Yellowstone River, abandoned railroad, approximately .75 mi. S of ND 200, Cartwright, 59221
  • When was it listed? March 1997
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Roadway Bridges of North Dakota MPS
  • Township. Yellowstone township
  • National Register reference number. 97000239 - 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.

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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000239 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McKenzie CountyAll 3 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.