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Photograph of Currin Bridge
Photograph by Bruce Fingerhood from Springfield, Oregon, US, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Currin Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Currin Bridge is a Howe truss covered bridge near Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States.”

Wikipedia article Currin Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane 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. E of Cottage Grove, Cottage Grove, 97424
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
  • Census division. Cottage Grove
  • National Register reference number. 79002082 - 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Currin Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural11
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Firearms and explosives use1

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 September 2003Natural1.0 acresNorthwest Oregon DistrictRRT
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBENNETT CK BEE FARM FIRE
7 September 1998Other causes1.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFHOOTEN
6 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersELM STREET
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFBRYSON SEARS
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFRAT FIRE
3 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFDOWENS ROAD

Every fire recorded in Lane 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 Currin Bridge: 20 past producers, 13 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Putnam DepositAluminum, ClayProspect
Cottage Grove Native CopperCopperOccurrenceCopper, Malachite
Cottage Grove Native CopperCopperProspect
PutnamClayOccurrence
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
East PitStonePast Producer
East PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fawn Peak QuarryStonePast Producer
Fawn Peak QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottage Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2005LightningCottage Grove-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lane 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

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mosby Creek Bridge1.1 miles1979
Stewart Bridge1.9 miles1979
LaSells D. Stewart House2.6 miles1994
Cochran-Rice Farm Complex3.0 miles1991
Cottage Grove Downtown Commercial Historic District3.3 miles1994
Cottage Grove Armory3.3 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002082 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane CountyAll 123 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.