Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“The Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge, sometimes known as the "Rondout Creek bridge", "Old Bridge" or "Wurts Street Bridge", is a steel suspension bridge spanning Rondout Creek, near where it empties into the Hudson River. It connects the City of Kingston to the north, with the village of Port Ewen to the south.”
Wikipedia article Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure · built in 1921.
National Register reference number.80002783- 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
1898 to 1993
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18981993
Fires near this property
471 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 471 fires within 5 miles of Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 455 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 39 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
242
Smoking
106
Arson/incendiarism
39
Debris and open burning
32
Natural
21
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Recreation and ceremony
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge: 9 past producers, 7 producers.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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