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Photograph of Earnest Bridge
Photograph by Laura Alier, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ernest Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Earnest Bridge, located near Marcola, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The name is spelled Ernest Bridge in some documents, including the NRHP listing, but spelled Earnest Bridge in the NRHP nomination and in signage on the bridge itself.”

Wikipedia article Earnest 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. NE of Marcola, Marcola, 97454
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
  • Census division. Marcola
  • National Register reference number. 79002094 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Ernest Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Smoking1
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
5 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWENDLING
29 September 2012Other causesunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHONEY BEE LANE FIRE
23 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictCITY VIEW
20 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFERNEST BRIDGE
19 September 2020Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDRURY BUTTE
18 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictDRURYCREEK
15 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFOLD MARCOLA ROAD
11 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictBUNKER HIL

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ernest Bridge: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
MabelClayOccurrence
Mabel Area ClayClayOccurrenceKaolinite
Mabel DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcola, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
January 2012FloodMarcola$1,000,000Heavy rain caused the Mohawk River near Springfield to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Mohawk River crested at 17.9 feet on January 19th at 7 pm PST, 2.9 feet above flood stage.

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

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Wendling Bridge2.0 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002094 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.