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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2021 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mill City Southern Pacific Rail Road (SPRR) Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Across North Santiam R., Mill City, 97360
- When was it listed? June 2021
- Category. structure
- National Register reference number. 100006686 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
125 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Mill City Southern Pacific Rail Road (SPRR) Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 were 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 | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest Oregon District | COX CREEK |
| 8 September 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Northwest Oregon District | LITTLE N FORK MP 3 |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santiam Unit | LITTLE N. F. #2 |
| 6 September 1996 | Smoking | under an acre | Santiam Unit | DEWITT LANE #1 |
| 4 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | REMINE POND #1 |
| 30 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.2 acres | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | REMINE |
| 3 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Santiam Unit | SPA FIRE |
| 3 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Santiam Unit | CEDAR MILL ROAD FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Mill City Southern Pacific Rail Road (SPRR) Bridge: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith-Butler | Iron, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | ||
| Mehama Alumina Clay | Aluminum, Clay | Occurrence | ||
| North Santiam Bauxite Deposit | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Gates | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Gates Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mehama Clay | Clay | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mill City, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Hail | Mill City | - | A thunderstorm moving through Linn and Marion Counties produced large hail with a report of E1.75 inch hail three miles east of Santiam Junction, Oregon and a report of M0.75 inch hail one mile east-southeast of Detroit, Oregon. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006686 in Record Group 79. |
| Linn County | All 73 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.