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Photograph of Eagleville Bridge
Photograph by David Broad, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Eagleville Covered Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Eagleville Bridge is a covered bridge located at Eagleville in the towns of Jackson and Salem, Washington County, New York. The bridge, which crosses the Battenkill, is one of 29 historic covered bridges in New York State.”

Wikipedia article Eagleville Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1978 · 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. Spans Batten Kill off NY 313, Eagleville, 12816
  • When was it listed? March 1978
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Covered Bridges of Washington County TR
  • Town. Salem town
  • National Register reference number. 78003458 - 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.

Then and now

1895 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Eagleville Covered Bridge, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Eagleville Covered Bridge, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Eagleville Covered Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2006Debris and open burning1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Eagleville Covered Bridge: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
White Creek Pb MineLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagleville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021FloodEagleville-Water was over State Route 313 between County Route 61 and Hickory Hill Road in the Town of Salem.
January 2019FloodEagleville-Hickory Hill Road was closed between State Route 313 and Perry Hill Road due to flooding.
August 2011FloodEagleville-Route 313 in Salem was closed due to flooding at the Vermont state border.
June 2007HailEagleville-Quarter size hail was reported in Anaquassacook.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Shushan Covered Bridge1.7 miles1978
Rexleigh Covered Bridge4.2 miles1978
Maxwell Farm4.5 miles2012
Cambridge Historic District5.2 miles1978
Martin-Fitch House & Asa Fitch, Jr. Laboratory5.8 miles2014
Susan B. Anthony Childhood House5.8 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78003458 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 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.