Sandy Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Sandy Creek Bridge is a covered bridge spanning Sandy Creek near the community of Remote in southwestern Oregon in the United States. The bridge crosses the creek near its mouth on the Middle Fork Coquille River in Coos County.”
Wikipedia article Sandy Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Coos 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Sandy Creek Rd., Remote, 97458
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. Myrtle Point
National Register reference number. 79002051 - 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 12 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	21
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bridge Unit	BELIEU CREEK
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Bridge Unit	FOOT BRIDGE
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Coos Bay District	WEAVERRDG
21 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bridge Unit	PLUM PRAIRIE
2 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CRIBBINS LANE
10 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Coos Bay District	UPPERROCK
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Bridge Unit	BONE MTN
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Coos Bay District	SLIDE CK

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sandy Creek Bridge: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Kincheloe Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lucky No. 1	Mercury	Occurrence
Enchanted Prairie	Stone	Past Producer
Enchanted Prairie	Stone	Producer
Kincheloe Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 79002051 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coos County	All 40 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.