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Photograph of Stewart Bridge
Photograph by Chris Phan from Glasgow, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stewart Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Stewart Bridge is a Howe truss covered bridge built in 1930 near Walden, Oregon, United States, in Lane County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Stewart Bridge (Walden, Oregon), 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SE of Walden, Walden, 97424
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
  • Census division. Cottage Grove
  • National Register reference number. 79002102 - 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Stewart Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 140 acres in total. 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning21
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural12
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Fireworks3
Other causes2
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
9 September 2003Natural1.0 acresNorthwest Oregon DistrictRRT
9 September 1995Other causesunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFBLUE MOUNTAIN ROAD
7 September 1998Other causes1.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFHOOTEN
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFBLUE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFBRYSON SEARS
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFRAT FIRE
3 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFDOWENS ROAD

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Stewart Bridge: 16 past producers, 11 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Putnam DepositAluminum, ClayProspect
Cottage Grove Native CopperCopperOccurrenceCopper, Malachite
Cottage Grove Native CopperCopperProspect
PutnamClayOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trask PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trask PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zumwalt and Williams Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walden, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
March 2025Debris FlowWalden$2,000Lane County posted on social media a video of Landslide clean up on Shoreview Drive east of Cottage Grove which had closed it overnight from March 16 to March 17.
April 2019FloodWalden-A level 3 evacuation was ordered for the 100-year flood plain along the Row River near Cottage Grove. The release of water from the Dorena Reservoir was higher than recorded in the 1996 flood.

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

6 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
Mosby Creek Bridge1.0 miles1979
Currin Bridge1.9 miles1979
LaSells D. Stewart House3.4 miles1994
Cottage Grove Downtown Commercial Historic District4.0 miles1994
Cochran-Rice Farm Complex4.0 miles1991
First Presbyterian Church4.0 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002102 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.