Photograph of Fitches Bridge — Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fitches Covered Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Fitch's Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over the West Branch of the Delaware River. It is in the town of Delhi and is one of 24 covered bridges in New York State.”
Wikipedia article Fitches 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. Fitches Bridge Rd., East Delhi, 13753
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. structure
Town. Delhi town
National Register reference number. 99000508 - 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

44 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Fitches Covered Bridge between 1995 and 2016, burning about 75 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fitches Covered Bridge: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Adair Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bloomville Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kortright Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Delhi, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 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
May 2013	Flash Flood	East Delhi	$40,000	Flood waters were rushing down the hillsides and across much of Route 10 from Delhi to Bloomville.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	East Delhi	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1909 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Delhi quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
Christian Church	under 500 feet	2001
Judge Gideon Frisbee House	0.6 miles	1976
Murray Hill	2.0 miles	1982
St. John's Church Complex	2.3 miles	1995
Delaware County Courthouse Square District	2.3 miles	1973
US Post Office-Delhi	2.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000508 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.
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.