Built in 1932 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge, also known as the Rogue River Bridge and the Isaac Lee Patterson Memorial Bridge, is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Rogue River in Curry County, Oregon. The bridge was constructed by the Mercer Fraser Company of Eureka, California.”
Wikipedia article Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Curry County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1932, Art Deco architecture.
Also known as. McCullough, C.B., Major Oregon Coast Highway Bridges MPS
Census division. Gold Beach
When was it built? 1932
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number.05000814- 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
65 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Rogue River Bridge No. 01172
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Debris and open burning
14
Recreation and ceremony
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Fireworks
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Natural
3
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Other causes
1
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
60 workings within 5 miles of Rogue River Bridge No. 01172: 42 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 prospects.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Gold Beach, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 flood, 1 waterspout, 1 hail.
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.
The Curry Coastal Pilot reported over 2 million dollars in infrastructure damage in Brookings and another 2 million in Curry County due to recent heavy rains. Sinkholes and overflowing sewage facilities were also reported.
The Curry Coastal Pilot reported widespread flooding in Brookings, Gold Beach, Pistol River, Harbor, and the Winchuck River. River's Edge RV park near the mouth of the Chetco had to be evacuated. The city of Brookings had flooded streets, stores and houses. Rainfall totals between 18/0800 PST and 21/0800 PST included 11.08 inches 3NE Harbor, 9.40 inches at Red Mound RAWS, 8.59 inches 1S Gold Beach, 8.56 inches 5E Port Orford, 6.88 inches at Agness RAWS, and 6.75 inches at Brookings Airport.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
2 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.
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.
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