State Highway 19 Bridge at Trinity River

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The State Highway 19 Bridge at Trinity River, near Riverside, Texas, brings State Highway 19 across the Trinity River between Trinity County, Texas and Walker County, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article State Highway 19 Bridge at Trinity River, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Walker County · listed in 2004 · 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. TX 19, on the Trinity/Walker county line, Riverside, 77320
When was it listed? December 2004
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Texas MPS
Census division. Riverside
National Register reference number. 04001290 - 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

108 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of State Highway 19 Bridge at Trinity River between 1993 and 2020, burning about 602 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WALKER 13:41
8 September 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Livingston Area	LIVINGSTON - 8068
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	173
30 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of State Highway 19 Bridge at Trinity River: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Bentonite. 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
Milwhite Company Abandoned Pit	Bentonite	Past Producer
Jordan and Hutchinson Operation	Clay	Producer
Riverside Plant	Clay	Producer
Stutts Equipment Co Operation	Clay	Producer
Unknown	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverside, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
January 1999	Tornado (F0)	Riverside	1 hurt, $10,000	Brief tornado touchdown in the Hickory Hills subdivision caused barn damage and one unconfirmed injury.
March 2000	Hail	Riverside	$25,000	no account filed
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	$16,000	A tin roof was removed off a shed on Martha Lane.
April 2004	Hail	Riverside	$15,000	Golfball-size hail north of FM 230.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	$15,000	Newspaper reported wind damage to a mobile home.
May 2005	Hail	Riverside	$12,000	no account filed
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	$5,000	Trees were downed near the intersection of FM 980 and Sunrise Loop.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in and around Riverside.
July 2002	Hail	Riverside	$5,000	Hail across the northern part of the entire county.
May 1994	Hail	Riverside	$5,000	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Riverside	$3,000	Golf ball-size hail was reported in the town of Riverside.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	$3,000	Tree down.
April 1998	Hail	Riverside	$3,000	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Riverside	$2,000	Riverside police reported golf ball size hail.
April 2020	Hail	Riverside	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported.
May 2020	Hail	Riverside	-	There was a mix of 1/2 inch to golf ball sized hail.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	-	Numerous trees were downed with some onto homes.
April 2010	Hail	Riverside	-	Penny sized hail was observed on the northwest end of Lake Livingston.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Riverside	-	Trees were reported down across local roads.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
	Riverside Swinging Bridge	0.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Walker County	All 7 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.