North Fork of the Yachats Bridge

Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The North Fork of the Yachats Bridge is a covered bridge in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Oregon. The bridge carries North Fork Yachats River Road over the north fork of the Yachats River, about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Yachats and the Pacific Ocean.”
Wikipedia article North Fork of the Yachats Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure · built in 1938.

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 Yachats, Yachats, 97498
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. Waldport
When was it built? 1938
National Register reference number. 79002108 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of North Fork of the Yachats Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	5
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	3
Other causes	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 1992	Other causes	1.0 acres	Toledo Unit	YACHATS #1
4 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	YACHATS RIVER ROAD FIRE
28 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Toledo Unit	YACHATS RIVER
22 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Toledo Unit	DARKEY CREEK
16 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Toledo Unit	CROTCHLINE SADDLE
1 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	CUMMINS CREEK
6 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Siuslaw National Forest	CANAL CREEK 073
6 August 1997	Other causes	under an acre	Toledo Unit	SCHOOL FORK

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Fork of the Yachats Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yachats, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2006	Heavy Rain	Yachats	-	Recorded a 5-day total of 12.2 inches at Cannibal Mountain.
January 1997	Flood	Yachats	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
US Spruce Production Railroad XII, Spur 5	4.1 miles	1989
Fisher School Bridge	6.5 miles	1979
Cape Perpetua Shelter and Parapet	7.1 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002108 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.
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.