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Photograph of Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road
Photograph by Bureau of Land Management, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Stone Bridge is a causeway built by the United States Army in 1867. It crosses the marshy channel that connects Hart Lake and Crump Lake in a remote area of Lake County in eastern Oregon, United States.”

Wikipedia article Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. The Narrows S of Plush, Plush, 97620
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Warner Valley
  • National Register reference number. 74001689 - 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

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road between 1996 and 2018, burning about 851 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2015Recreation and ceremony238 acresLakeview DistrictHART LAKE
5 August 2012Naturalunder an acreHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeRIFFLE
3 August 1999Natural600 acresHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeCRUMP LAKE
26 August 1996Naturalunder an acreHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeRIM
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictPRIDAY
2 August 2007Natural1.1 acresHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeALKALAI
15 August 2004Naturalunder an acreHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeHART LAKE
15 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLakeview DistrictPOWERLINE

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bansco QuarryStonePast Producer
Bansco QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Moss 1GeothermalProducer
Moss 2GeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plush, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2010: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010HailPlush-Hail reported at the Plush General Store.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001689 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 14 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.