Belknap Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Belknap Bridge crosses the McKenzie River near the unincorporated community of Rainbow in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is approximately three miles west of the town of McKenzie Bridge which is named after the bridge.”
Wikipedia article Belknap 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. Off SR 126, Rainbow, 97413
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. McKenzie River
National Register reference number. 79002097 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Belknap Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173,444 acres in total. 28 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
Natural	28
Recreation and ceremony	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Other causes	2

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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	173,393 acres	Willamette National Forest	HOLIDAY FARM
7 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	CANE SLEEPER
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	INCIDENT 411
5 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	HORSE CREEK
3 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Willamette National Forest	COUGAR
25 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	WHITE SMOKE
25 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	LOOKOUT HUNTER
25 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Willamette National Forest	WALKER TOO

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Belknap Bridge: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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	Recorded
Cougar Reservoir	Geothermal	Occurrence
Great Western	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Gold
Great Western Mine	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Melones Millions Nos 1,11,111	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Melones Millions Nos 1,11,111	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Jry Group	Gold	Occurrence
Jry Group	Gold	Prospect

Every working 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
	Log Cabin Inn Ensemble	3.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002097 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.
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.