Photograph of Hyde Hall Bridge — Photograph by Waz8, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hyde Hall Covered Bridge

Built in 1825. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Hyde Hall Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Shadow Brook built in 1825, on then-private property of Hyde Hall, a country mansion. Both are now included in Glimmerglass State Park.”
Wikipedia article Hyde Hall Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Otsego County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1825.

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. East Lake Rd., over Shadow Brook, East Springfield, 13326
When was it listed? December 1998
Category. structure
Town. Springfield town
When was it built? 1825
National Register reference number. 98001539 - 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

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hyde Hall Covered Bridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	8
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
15 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
18 May 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 May 2015	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 April 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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 Hyde Hall Covered Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Springfield Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Springfield	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees.

Every storm recorded in Otsego County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS East Springfield quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS East Springfield quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS East Springfield quadrangle1:25000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Hyde Hall	0.5 miles	1971
St. Mary's Episcopal Church Complex	2.7 miles	2015
Warren Ferris House	2.7 miles	2016
Springfield Center Elementary School	3.0 miles	2011
Glimmerglass Historic District	3.3 miles	1999
East Springfield Union School	3.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001539 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Otsego County	All 79 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.