Photograph of Lower Shavertown Bridge — Photograph by Vonsky87, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“Lower Shavertown Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Trout Creek in the town of Hancock in Delaware County, New York, U.S. It was originally erected in the hamlet of Shaverton in 1877 as a crossing of Lower Beech Hill Brook, and moved to its present location at Methol in 1954.”
Wikipedia article Lower Shavertown Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1999 · 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. 682 Methol Rd., Methol, 12776
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. structure
Town. Hancock town
National Register reference number. 99000504 - 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

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge between 2005 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	17
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
9 May 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1920 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1921 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:48000
1923 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Horton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1982 USGS Horton quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Rock Valley School	4.2 miles	2008
Hotel Delaware	7.7 miles	2004
Hanford Mill	7.9 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000504 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 78 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.