Old Blenheim Bridge

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Old Blenheim Bridge was a wooden covered bridge that spanned Schoharie Creek in North Blenheim, New York, United States. With an open span of 210 feet (64 m), it had the second longest span of any surviving single-span covered bridge in the world.”
Wikipedia article Old Blenheim Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Schoharie County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 30 over Schoharie Creek, North Blenheim, 12131
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. structure
Town. Blenheim town
National Register reference number. 66000570 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Old Blenheim Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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	22
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
24 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Old Blenheim Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Wawaywando Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this property

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Blenheim, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2020	Flood	North Blenheim	$50,000	Route 30 and Bear Ladder Road were closed due to several feet of water over the roadways from the flooded Schoharie Creek.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	$10,000	A roof was blown off a home, and trees were blown down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	$8,000	no account filed
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	-	Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Blenheim Hill Rd and North Rd.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	-	A tree was downed onto a vehicle in the Hamlet of North Blenheim.
August 2018	Heavy Rain	North Blenheim	-	Strong storm resulted in 2.25 inches of rainfall.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	-	Trees and wires were reported down in North Blenheim due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011	Hail	North Blenheim	-	Penny size hail was reported at the New York Power Authority during a thunderstorm.
May 2011	Hail	North Blenheim	-	Penny size hail was reported in North Blenheim during a thunderstorm.
April 2007	Flood	North Blenheim	-	Heavy rain led to minor flooding of small streams and creeks, as well as in low lying, poor drainage areas and roadways. This led to some road closures across portions of the county.\|In addition, the runoff from heavy rainfall and snowmelt led to moderate flooding along portions of the Schoharie Creek, including at Burtonsville, which crested at 8.95 feet at 04:30 EST on the 17th, and at the Gilboa Dam, which crested at 1132.08 feet at 17:50 EST on the 16th.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	-	Trees were blown down in North Blenheim.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	North Blenheim	-	Trees down
September 2004	Flash Flood	North Blenheim	-	Darling Hollow Creek, Betty Brook, and Westkill all flooded. Water from Schohaire Creek on Route 30 near Blenheim, closing it between Middleburgh and Fulton.
May 1998	Hail	North Blenheim	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoharie County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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
North Blenheim Historic District	0.5 miles	1974
Lansing Manor House	1.9 miles	1973
Breakabeen Historic District	4.6 miles	1974
West Fulton Methodist Church	6.5 miles	2013
South Gilboa Railroad Station	7.4 miles	2000
Stewart House and Howard-Stewart Family Cemetery	7.4 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Schoharie County	All 52 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.