Otowi Suspension Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Otowi Suspension Bridge, spanning the Rio Grande River near San Ildefonso, New Mexico, is a wooden single-lane suspension bridge for road traffic, built in 1924. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”
Wikipedia article Otowi Suspension Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Santa Fe 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. NM 4 over Rio Grande, San Ildefonso
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Highway Bridges of New Mexico MPS
Census division. Santa Fe North
National Register reference number. 97000730 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Otowi Suspension Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	13
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	CASTLERUN
14 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	DUMP 2
11 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	65
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Bandelier National Monument	LADDER
7 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Bandelier National Monument	ROUTE 4
6 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	ELM
4 July 2019	Fireworks	under an acre	Northern Pueblos Agency	OVERLOOK
19 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	MONTOSO

Every fire recorded in Santa Fe County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Otowi Suspension Bridge: 8 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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	Recorded
Copar Guaje Canyon Mine	Pumice	Producer	Pumice
White Eagle Pumice Mine 1	Pumice	Unknown
White Eagle Pumice Mine 2	Pumice	Unknown
White Eagle Pumice Mine 3	Pumice	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Santa Fe 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Otowi Historic District	under 500 feet	1975
San Ildefonso Pueblo	1.7 miles	1974
Lujan-Ortiz House	4.7 miles	2000
Ignacio Roybal House	5.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000730 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Fe County	All 79 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.