Photograph of Wilson River Bridge — Photograph by Jet Lowe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wilson River Bridge No. 01499

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Wilson River Bridge, also known as Wilson River Bridge at Tillamook or Wilson River Bridge No. 01499, is a bridge near Tillamook, Oregon, United States. The 1931 bridge was designed by Conde McCullough in the Classical Revival and Art Deco styles.”
Wikipedia article Wilson River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Tillamook County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1931.

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, MP 64.23, Tillamook, 97141
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. McCullough, C.B., Major Oregon Coast Highway Bridges MPS
Census division. Tillamook
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 05000825 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wilson River Bridge No. 01499 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 314 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
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DEER ROAD
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BRADBURN
8 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	A STREET
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tillamook District	TWISTED GATE
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	301 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PIKE ROAD
3 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Tillamook District	ELECTRIC CREEK
29 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tillamook District	OLD DUMP
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tillamook District	LATIMER ROAD

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Wilson River Bridge No. 01499: 19 past producers, 18 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
600 Rock Pit	Stone	Past Producer
600 Rock Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
720 Rock Pit	Stone	Past Producer
720 Rock Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
746 Rock Pit	Stone	Past Producer
746 Rock Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Christensen Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Christensen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jacob Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tillamook County

Storms near this property

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tillamook, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 14 flood, 3 heavy rain, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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	Flood	Tillamook	$26,500,000	The Wilson River at Tillamook reached major flood levels. Many homes and businesses were damaged by flood waters. A trailer park was evacuated, which sustained significant property damage. NOTE: Damage estimates are for the entire county of Tillamook.
November 2006	Flood	Tillamook	$15,000,000	The Wilson River near Tillamook crested at 22.8 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 12.0 feet and major flood stage at 19.0 feet. This set a record flood stage for the gauge, and caused major flooding problems for the city of Tillamook, down river from the gauge.
December 2015	Flood	Tillamook	$461,000	High water resulted in the closing of several roads near Tillamook including Highway the Oregon State Route 6 near the Highway 101 intersection.
November 2015	Flood	Tillamook	$25,000	The 5 day rainfall total ending in the morning on November 17th for Lees Camp, OR was 14.60 inches. Flooding from this rain closed several roads including Highway 101, Highway 6, Long Prairie Road, Alderbrook Road, God's Valley Road, and Front Street. Emergency response officials evacuated residents and about 20 trailers at two trailer parks (one near the Wilson River and one near the Tilamook River). Two of the trailers were damaged by the flooding. Flooding of Lake Lytle in Rockaway Beach flooded an apartment. The Wilson River near Tillamook, the Nehalem River near Foss, and the Trask River near Tillamook all exceeded flood stage with the Wilson cresting at 17.71 feet, the Nehalem at 17.71 feet, and the Trask at 18.56 feet. Flooding of the Trask River flooded a garage. Heavy rain also produced 2 minor mud slides.
January 1999	Lightning	Tillamook	$15,000	no account filed
October 2016	Heavy Rain	Tillamook	$5,000	Heavy rain with accumulations of 2 to 4 inches along the Coast flooded Highway 6, and left standing water on Highway 101. A landslide occurred blocking Bayocean Road at milepost 2 as well.
September 2020	Heavy Rain	Tillamook	-	Two inches of rainfall reported over 24 hours.
November 2017	Hail	Tillamook	-	Storm Spotter in Tillamook reported hail up to 0.75 inch in diameter.
December 2014	Flood	Tillamook	-	The Wilson River near Tillamook reached flood stage of 12 feet at 630 PM on December 20th. The river crested at 14.12 feet at 830 AM on December 21st, and dropped below flood stage at 1045 AM.
March 2012	Flood	Tillamook	-	Heavy rain caused flooding along the Wilson River. The Wilson River at Tillamook crested at 12.4 feet on March 29th at 11 pm PDT, 0.4 feet above flood stage.
March 2012	Flood	Tillamook	-	Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff causing flooding along the Wilson River. The Wilson River at Tillamook crested at 13.5 feet on March 15th at 2 pm PDT, 1.5 feet above flood stage.
January 2011	Flood	Tillamook	-	Highway 101 at milepost 64 was closed because of high water, as well as two miles south of Tillamook at the junction of Highway 101 and the Wilson River Highway. Cars were being detoured onto county roads.
January 2011	Flood	Tillamook	-	Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff to produce flooding along the Wilson River. Highway 101 in downtown Tillamook was flooded. The Wilson River at Tillamook crested at 13.9 feet on January 16th at 15:30 PST.
January 2009	Flood	Tillamook	-	Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff resulted in the flooding of the Wilson River. Highway 101 in downtown Tillamook was swamped with flooded water.
April 2007	Funnel Cloud	Tillamook	-	Photograph taken by a Tillamook county employee and featured in the newspaper.
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Tillamook	-	A total accumulation of 2.68 inches was reported at Tillamook RAWS.
December 2006	Flood	Tillamook	-	The Wilson River near Tillamook crested at 12.1 feet on the 14th; flood stage for this river is 12.0 feet.
November 2006	Flood	Tillamook	-	The Trask River near Tillamook crested at 19.6 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 16.5 feet.
January 2006	Flood	Tillamook	-	no account filed
January 2006	Flood	Tillamook	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tillamook 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

4 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
US Post Office	1.8 miles	1985
US Naval Air Station Dirigible Hangar B	4.4 miles	1989
Cape Meares Lighthouse	6.5 miles	1993
US Coast Guard Station-Tillamook Bay	6.7 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000825 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tillamook County	All 9 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.