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Photograph of Gervais Street Bridge
Photograph by Jack Boucher, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gervais Street Bridge

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Gervais Street Bridge is a historic bridge in South Carolina in the United States and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is an arch bridge constructed from reinforced concrete.”

Wikipedia article Gervais Street Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Lexington County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure · built in 1928.

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. Spans Congaree River, West Columbia, 29169
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Columbia MRA
  • Census division. West Columbia-Cayce
  • When was it built? 1928
  • National Register reference number. 80003676 - 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Gervais Street Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 507 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lexington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Gervais Street Bridge: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 3 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zirconium, Thorium, Titanium, Iron, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cayce QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cayce Silica PlantSilicaUnknown
Congaree RiverZirconium, Thorium, Titanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Green HoleStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, GranitePast ProducerIgneous
Guignard MillClay, KaolinPast Producer
Westinghouse Elec. Corp--ColumbiaThoriumUnknown
Cayce QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1893
Columbia QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1883
Brick Plant No. 2ClayPast Producer
Brick Plant No. 4ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lexington County

Storms near this property

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Columbia, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003LightningWest Columbia$55,000Lightning struck a home setting on fire and destroying it.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia$14,000Public reported roof partially torn off a building and damage to a car.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia$2,000West Columbia police reported powerlines down on several roads.
April 1995HailWest Columbia$2,000no account filed
June 1995HailWest Columbia$1,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia-EM reported some trees down on East Steel street.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia-NWS employee reported large limbs down on Mineral Springs road in the Saluda Shoals subdivision.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia-Sheriff reported several trees down at Lexington Hospital on hwy 378.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia-West Columbia police reported numerous trees down.
March 2000HailWest Columbia-Radio and TV stations reported golf ball size hail.
April 1998HailWest Columbia-TV 10 spotter reported golf ball size hail at the Lexington Medical Center near I26 and hwy 378.
April 1998HailWest Columbia-SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail at Oak Dr. and U.S.1.
April 1998HailWest Columbia-SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail on U.S.1.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia-Sheriff reports trees down.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWest Columbia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lexington 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
New Brookland Historic District0.2 miles1978
Guignard Brick Works0.5 miles1995
Professional Building0.8 miles2025
Still Hopes0.8 miles1983
Gunter-Summers House0.9 miles1987
William J. Cayce House1.4 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003676 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lexington CountyAll 56 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.