Goodpasture Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Goodpasture Bridge spans the McKenzie River near the community of Vida in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is the second longest covered bridge and one of the most photographed covered bridges in the state.”
Wikipedia article Goodpasture 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 Vida, Vida, 97488
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. McKenzie River
National Register reference number. 79002100 - 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

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Goodpasture Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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	19
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	15400
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	9000 ALPHA
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	VIDA STORE POWERLINE
24 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	GOODPASTURE CAR FIRE
2 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	MCKENZIE HIKE FIRE
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MCKENZIE MP31
8 August 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Santiam Unit	CARBURETOR FIRE
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LEABURG CANAL FIRE

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
	McKenzie Fish Hatchery, Old	1.2 miles	1996
	Leaburg Hydroelectric Project Historic District	6.0 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002100 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.