Photograph of Siuslaw River Bridge — Photograph by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Siuslaw River Bridge No. 01821

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

From the record

“The Siuslaw River Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Siuslaw River on U.S. It was designed by Conde McCullough, built by the Mercer-Fraser Company of Eureka, California, and funded by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.”
Wikipedia article Siuslaw River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane 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, US101, MP109.98, Florence, 97439
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. McCullough, C.B., Major Oregon Coast Highway Bridges MPS
Census division. Dunes City
When was it built? 1936
Architect. Conde Balcom McCullough
National Register reference number. 05000816 - 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Siuslaw River Bridge No. 01821 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 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
Recreation and ceremony	57
Debris and open burning	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Fireworks	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	7
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	JOAQUIN MILLER
8 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	KINGWOOD CAMP
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	BENDER LANDING
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	908 QUINCE STREET FIRE
5 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	TREE ISLAND
4 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OAK ST. FIRE
30 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	NORTH JETTY FIRE
3 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MUNSEL CREEK 2

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Siuslaw River Bridge No. 01821: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand Ranch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Florence	-	Storm total precipitation was 3.10 inches in Florence.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Kyle, William, and Sons, Building	0.2 miles	1981
Edwin E. Benedict House	2.2 miles	1979
Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park Historic District	2.3 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000816 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane County	All 123 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.