Ritner Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Ritner Creek Bridge was the last covered bridge on a state highway in Oregon. It carried Oregon Route 223 (OR 223) over Ritner Creek between Pedee and Kings Valley, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Dallas, or 10 miles (16 km) north of the junction with U.S.”
Wikipedia article Ritner Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk 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. S of Pedee, Pedee, 97361
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
Census division. Falls City
National Register reference number. 79002147 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Ritner Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 4 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 use	16
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	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 2002	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	1480 SPUR
6 September 2002	Natural	1.5 acres	Northwest Oregon District	1480 ROAD
4 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	23 acres	Philomath Unit	FORT HOSKINS
28 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	SOUTHFORK
25 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WILDWOOD STRIKE
21 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Dallas Unit	SOUTH KINGS VALLEY
19 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	COUNTY LINE STRIKE
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dallas Unit	FIR GROVE #1

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Ritner Creek Bridge: 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Evans Products	Stone	Past Producer
Evans Products Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
La Ro Lumber Co	Stone	Past Producer
La Ro Lumber Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Oregon State Highway Division	Stone	Past Producer
Oregon State Highway Division	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Oregon State University	Stone	Past Producer
Oregon State University	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Tri-County	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
	Riley-Cutler House	2.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002147 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk County	All 33 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.