Fisher School Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Fisher School Bridge is a covered bridge in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Oregon. The 72-foot (22 m) Howe truss structure crosses a stream called Five Rivers near the rural community of Fisher in the Central Oregon Coast Range.”
Wikipedia article Fisher School Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln 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. Five Rivers Rd., Fisher, 97390
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. Waldport
National Register reference number. 79002105 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fisher School Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 134 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
28 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	GREEN RIVER
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	FIVE RIVERS RD.
14 September 1992	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Western Lane District	FIVE RIVER
8 August 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Western Lane District	5 RIVERS #1
20 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	LONG HAIR
3 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	FIVE RIVERS
15 July 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	INDIDENT 29
6 June 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Siuslaw National Forest	DENZER FIVE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
	North Fork of the Yachats Bridge	6.5 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002105 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 19 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.