Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Foreaker Covered Bridge, with the first word sometimes spelled Foraker, and also called the Weddle Covered Bridge, is located on Monroe County Road 40, three miles east of Graysville, Ohio. The property was listed on the National Register in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Foreaker Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 9 National Register listings in Monroe County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.75001493- 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
9 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Foreaker Bridge between
2013 and 2020, burning about 15 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
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 399 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Foreaker Bridge between 1853 and
1975: 379 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 National Weather Service names
Graysville, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
The county emergency manager reported that a road was washed out by flooding south of Graysville. Also, flash flooding was reported in the area along Route 26 south of town.
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.
From the nomination file
1,959 words on record
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
on the once-common multiple kingpost truss plan. The king- NATIONAL RECEIVED verticals, or kingposts, are the tension members. This was bridge trusses ever used in Ohio's wooden covered bridges. abutments have been reinforced with concrete. REGISTER and the overall width is l4'i"..The height of the trusses is with an overall length of 103'8.The roadway width is 12'1" PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(s) (If Applicable and Known) - Education - Urban Planning - Prehistoric [X Engineering | Science - Social/Human- - Literature - Military - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
1886/87 Communications Commerce Conservation losophy SIGNIFICANCE REGISTER NATIONAL Architecture Aboriginal Agriculture RECEIVED Religion/Phi Landscape Music Invention itarian Political produced fine cheeses. Sculpture Industry lived in this area for many years still call it the Foreaker or Foreaker, depending on the age of the person interviewed. plan is the popular multiple kingpost, once so common here This covered bridge is known by two different names, Weddle them the fine art of watch and clock-ma king and they also The Foreaker Family owmed the land on the south end of the the imposing scenery of the Switzerland of ohio!
The Foreaker or Weddle Bridge is a beloved landmark set amidst Bridge.In l925,the Weddle Family bought the Foreaker Farm we do know that the stonework was done by Isaiah Cline,a Other (Specify) The builder of the bridge is unknown, but MAY 2 Art stonemason.The trusses are of native white oak.The truss This covered bridge is one of only two remaining today in Bridge.This oft-repaieed old structure is located in what in Ohio.According to some sources, the bridge was erected and and so many people now refer to the bridge as the Weddle bridge at the time the bridge was built and people who have is known as the Switzerland of Ohio.The area is so-called Monroe County. AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001493, 14 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.
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.
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