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Photograph of Hayden Bridge
Photograph by 46percent, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hayden Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Hayden Bridge, a Howe truss structure, spans the Alsea River about 2 miles (3 km) west of Alsea, Oregon, United States. Constructed in 1918, the 91-foot (28 m) span is one of only seven remaining covered bridges in Oregon that were built before 1920.”

Wikipedia article Hayden Bridge (Alsea, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W of Alsea, Alsea, 97324
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
  • Census division. Southwest Benton
  • National Register reference number. 79002034 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Hayden Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 4 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 ceremony12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
25 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePhilomath UnitHIGH HONEYGROVE
21 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePhilomath UnitSOUTH FORK ACCESS ROAD
17 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhilomath UnitHONEYGROVE RD.
16 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhilomath UnitHAYDEN SPUR
16 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePhilomath UnitMALTBY CREEK
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhilomath UnitHONEY HEAD
6 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictCATTLE GUARD
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTHE LYON

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hayden Bridge: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alsea Rock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Alsea Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tobe Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Tobe Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alsea, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flood. 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
December 2015FloodAlsea$10,000Heavy rain resulted in flooding of the Mary River near Philomath. There was also a landslide that closed westbound highway 34 near Alsea.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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 79002034 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton CountyAll 56 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.