Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge is a historic lenticular truss bridge located at Ouaquaga in the towns of Windsor and Colesville in Broome County, New York. It was constructed in 1888 and spans the Susquehanna River.”
Wikipedia article Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome County · listed in 2003 · 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. Dutchman Rd. over Susquehanna R, Ouaquaga, 13865
When was it listed? February 2003
Category. structure
Town. Colesville town
Architect. Berlin Iron Bridge Co.
National Register reference number. 03000048 - 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

92 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	8
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 August 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Broome 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 Ouaquaga Lenticular Truss Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, 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
	Benjamin Franklin Graphite Mine	Graphite	Past Producer
	Windsor Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Broome County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ouaquaga, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2002	Flash Flood	Ouaquaga	$25,000	State Route 79 in the hamlet of Ouaquaga in the town of Colesville had water covering it. Dutchtown Road was washed out also in Ouaquaga. Mountain Road in East Windsor was washed out. East Windsor Road was closed due to a bridge washout between Hartz Road and Thorn road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ouaquaga	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ouaquaga	$3,000	Trees and wires were blown down in Oquaga.
September 2013	Hail	Ouaquaga	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Broome County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1905 USGS Nineveh quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Windsor Village Historic District	3.1 miles	1980
Jedediah Hotchkiss House	3.7 miles	1982
Harpursville United Methodist Church	4.0 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000048 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome County	All 66 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.