Lake Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Lake Creek Bridge also known as the Nelson Mountain Bridge, is a covered bridge near Greenleaf, in the U.S. state of Oregon, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 105-foot (32 m) covered bridge, built in 1928, carries Nelson Mountain Road over Lake Creek in Lane County.”
Wikipedia article Lake 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 Greenleaf, Greenleaf, 97430
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake
National Register reference number. 79002091 - 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

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lake Creek Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Western Lane District	BEACH CREEK
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DEADWOOD CREEK
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	BURLY RIDGE FIRE
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	LAKE MOUNTAIN ROAD
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	HWY. 36 #1
29 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	STAGE COACH LIGHTNING
29 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	NELSON MOUNTAIN TREE
29 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	DEADWOOD CREEK 0829

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

2 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
	Deadwood Creek Bridge	3.5 miles	1979
	Wildcat Creek Bridge	7.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002091 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.