Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.
From the record
“Bergstresser / Dietz Bridge, the last remaining covered bridge in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, is located within the city limits of Canal Winchester, Ohio in southeastern Franklin County. The wooden bridge crosses Little Walnut Creek, which is a tributary of the Scioto River.”
Wikipedia article Bergstresser/Dietz Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 343 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.74001484- 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.
Then and now
1925 to 1984
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bergstresser Covered Bridge
between 2010 and 2012, burning about 26 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
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 823 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bergstresser Covered Bridge between 1895 and 1975: 812 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by C. A. Petrovic, C. H. R., Caldwell and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Bergstresser Covered Bridge: 2 past producers.
None of them 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
briefly as follows: upper and lower chords in 2 sections, the ties or new his angling of the braces and posts, the chords in two sections and Bridge) - DEC 1 9 1973 CONDITION Ruins battens. The structure under consideration is a one span covered wooden truss their ends rest against the posts and chords.Mr.Partridge claimed as may be omitted and the ends of the braces sprung together and bolted so bridge over Lt.Walnut Creek.The bridge measures 134 feet from posts are securely bolted to the chords and stand at an angle of 6o with 1971. and are bolted in the middle to the middle of the posts..The ends of (Check One) - Moved tals are projected with a 9 foot overhang and are finished with 2g inch 9", 5}" by 8", 5}" by 7" and 5%" by 6".
The lower chords are 32" by 11" on the portals, its appearance has changed little over the years. The Excellent Good cedar shingles and the siding is vertical white pine boards.The por- Original Site The Bergstresser Bridge is on its original site and except for red paint The abutments are of cut stone laid with mortar.The roof is l6 inch has been replaced when necessary.The entire roof was reshingled in are parallel with each other and pass upon opposite sides of the posts an angle of 45with the horizontal plane.The two braces of each pair is l6 feet with a 13 foot roadway and a 13 foot overhead clearance. and the top chords are 6by 8and 7by 8#.The Partridge truss as
Statement of significance
Reuban Partridge (U. S. Patent #127,791, June 11, 1872) of Marysville, The Bergstresser Bridge is a well-built, sturdy structure, an out- DEC 1 9 1973 1887 REGISTER Conservation Aboriginal NATIONAL Commerce Science Communications Literature Theater Political Landscape Agriculture itarian Music The name Bergstresser comes from one Daniel Bergstresser who owned Pre-Columbian Retigion/Phi- Military the last original covered bridge in Franklin County and one of only Sculpture RECEIVED serves one home and the Canal Winchester sewage plant.
Social/Human- Ford although the mill has been gone for many years.The Partridge The road carried across Lt.Walnut Creek by the Bergstresser Bridge 6 examples of the Partridge truss in existance today.The Franklin truss was undoubtedly chosen ror this bridge because its inventor, The Bergstresser Bridge was built in l887 by the Columbus Bridge Industry Ohio, was an officer in the Columbus Bridge Company at that time. Urban Planning and has placed historical signs over each portal. 17th Century Invention Company at a cost of 2,690.The abutments were laid by M.Corbett.
became SR 674 in the late 1930's and the state assumed ownership of Education Other(Specify) Art County Engineering Department keeps this bridge in excellent condition This is the original bridge on this site.Louis Kramer built a grist 79 acres to the east of the bridge site in section 3l of Madison Twp the bridge.In 1956,the state relocated route 674 and the covered standing example of late 19th century engineering skills.I and saw mill here in l8o8 and the ford was always known as Kramer's
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001484, 12 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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