Photograph of Rocky Creek Bridge — Photograph by Jan Tik, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rocky Creek Bridge No. 01089

Built in 1926 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Rocky Creek Bridge No. 01089, also known as Ben Jones Bridge, is a concrete highway bridge spanning Rocky Creek along the Pacific Ocean coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. The bridge crosses a gorge near the creek's mouth, about 2 miles (3 km) south of Depoe Bay in Lincoln County.”
Wikipedia article Rocky Creek Bridge No. 01089, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1926, Neoclassical architecture.

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. Otter Crest Loop Rd., US101 frontage road, MP F130.00, Otter Rock, 97341
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. McCullough, C.B., Major Oregon Coast Highway Bridges MPS
Census division. Newport
When was it built? 1926
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 05000824 - 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Creek Bridge No. 01089 between 1994 and 2018, burning about 299 acres in total. 2 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
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Toledo Unit	FOULWEATHER
22 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	202 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	2500 RD. FIRE
2 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BEVERLY FIRE
8 July 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Toledo Unit	BEVERLY BEACH
5 July 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Toledo Unit	ROCKY CREEK
4 July 2005	Natural	2.5 acres	Toledo Unit	ROCKY CREEK
31 July 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Toledo Unit	SPENCER CREEK
25 July 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Toledo Unit	BEVERLY BEACH STATE PARK

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Creek Bridge No. 01089: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Otter Crest Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Otter Crest Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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

5 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
Look-Out on Cape Foulweather, The	1.3 miles	2015
Depoe Bay Bridge No. 01388	2.2 miles	2005
TRADEWINDS KINGFISHER (Cruiser)	2.2 miles
Depoe Bay Ocean Wayside	2.3 miles	2012
Yaquina Head Lighthouse	7.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000824 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 19 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.