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Photograph of Stillwater Bridge
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Stillwater Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Stillwater Bridge is a historic Pratt through Truss bridge located at Stillwater in Oswego County, New York. It is a two-span bridge constructed in 1913 and spans the Salmon River.”

Wikipedia article Stillwater Bridge (Salmon River, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Oswego 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Dam Rd. over Salmon R., Stillwater, 13144
  • When was it listed? November 1997
  • Category. structure
  • Town. Orwell town
  • National Register reference number. 97001385 - 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

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Stillwater Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural3
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHALL ISLAND FIRE 2
7 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHALL ISLAND 4
5 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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 Stillwater Bridge: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Babcock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Orwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this property

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stillwater, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindStillwater$5,000A trained spotter reported a row of trees broken off thirty feet up from the ground.

Every storm recorded in Oswego County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97001385 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oswego CountyAll 93 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.