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Umpqua River Bridge No. 01822

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Umpqua River Bridge is a swing-span bridge that spans the Umpqua River in Reedsport, Oregon. It consists of a central swing span flanked by two reinforced concrete arches on each end.”
Wikipedia article Umpqua River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1936, by Conde Balcom McCullough.

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. OR Coast 9, US 101, MP211.21, Reedsport, 97467
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. McCullough, C.B., Major Oregon Coast Highway Bridges MPS
Census division. Reedsport
When was it built? 1936
Architect. Conde Balcom McCullough
National Register reference number. 05000815 - 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Umpqua River Bridge No. 01822 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	23
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	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
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	420 CC
6 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	SPARROW PARK 4
6 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	THREEMILE LAKE
5 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	SPARROW PK
30 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	SPARROW PARK 6
29 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BEAR LANE
27 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	SPARROW PARK 18
24 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	SCHOLFIELD CREEK #2

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Umpqua River Bridge No. 01822: 8 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Reedsport Yard	Stone	Past Producer
Winchester Bay Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bolon Island	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bolon Island	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Reedsport Yard Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Map coverage status

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

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
Gardiner Historic District	1.5 miles	1994
US Coast Guard Station-Umpqua River, Administration and Equipment Buildings	5.8 miles	1992
Umpaqua River Light House	5.9 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000815 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.