Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Bridge

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Bridge is a railroad bridge in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it formerly carried the tracks of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company over the McKenzie River southeast of Coburg.”
Wikipedia article Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure · built in 1887.

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. SE of Coburg, Coburg, 97408
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. structure
Census division. Coburg
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 80003332 - 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	FFD140203958
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SPORES CREEK FIRE
4 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DELTA ROAD FIRE #2
26 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	SPORES CR.
23 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	MCGOWAN NFCA 114
17 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	MCKENZIE VIEW 2
17 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	ARMITAGE
16 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	ZIPPO

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Bridge: 22 past producers, 17 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Golden Star	Gold	Past Producer
Golden Star Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Country Squire Tree Farm Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Country Squire Tree Farm	Stone	Past Producer
Eugene Sand and Gravel Incorporate	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Ayers Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coburg, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Coburg	$45,000	Thunderstorms produced a downburst of wind that downed around 50 Douglas Fir trees with trunk diameters between 10 and 14 inches.
October 2015	Funnel Cloud	Coburg	-	There were several reports of a funnel cloud in the vicinity of Coburg, OR.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Nelson and Margret Mathews House	1.9 miles	1984
Coburg Historic District	2.1 miles	1986
Willakenzie Grange Hall	2.3 miles	2009
Chase Gardens Residential Grouping	3.7 miles	1999
Robert E. Campbell House	4.1 miles	1979
Shelton-McMurphey House and Grounds	4.4 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003332 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.
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.