Wildcat Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Wildcat Creek Bridge is a covered bridge built in 1925 at Austa, near Walton, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It uses Howe truss engineering and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Wildcat Creek 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. W of Eugene, Walton, 97490
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. Upper Siuslaw River
National Register reference number. 79002089 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Wildcat Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 793 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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 use	12
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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
6 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	MP 28 HWY 126
4 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Western Lane District	BEACH CREEK
3 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Western Lane District	T-BONE FIRE
28 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	243 acres	Northwest Oregon District	AUSTA
22 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	SWAMPY PHONE
21 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	ROCK CREEK
2 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LINSLAW
1 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	JUNK YARD

Every fire 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lake Creek Bridge	7.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002089 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane County	All 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.