Deweyville Swing Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Deweyville Swing Bridge, also known as Deweyville-Starks Swing Bridge and Sabine River Bridge, is a swing bridge which carries Texas State Highway 12 and Louisiana Highway 12 across the Sabine River at the Texas-Louisiana border. The bridge connects Deweyville, Texas to rural Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, near the community of Starks.”
Wikipedia article Deweyville Swing Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2011 · 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 12 & LA 12 at Sabine R., Deweyville, 70661
When was it listed? June 2011
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Texas MPS
National Register reference number. 11000346 - 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

322 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Deweyville Swing Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,364 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 87 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/undetermined	104
Arson/incendiarism	87
Debris and open burning	47
Natural	40
Railroad operations and maintenance	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
8 September 2005	Natural	130 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
4 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
4 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
30 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LIVINGSTON - 963
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Louisiana Office of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deweyville Swing Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Deweyville Dredge & Plant	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this property

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deweyville, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2001	Flash Flood	Deweyville	$50,000	Mainly street and bridge damage occurred in southern sections of Newton County as a result of nearly ten inches of rain in less than ten hours.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$50,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$25,000	no account filed
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$20,000	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$15,000	Trees were blown down in many locations across Newton County.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$10,000	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$10,000	no account filed
October 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$5,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$5,000	no account filed
October 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$3,000	Numerous trees were downed around the Devils Pocket area.
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$2,000	Tress downed onto County Roads 3127, 4212, and 4181.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$2,000	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$2,000	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$2,000	no account filed
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	$1,000	Wood siding was damaged from severe thunderstorm wind gusts at the Deweyville United Pentecostal Church.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Deweyville	-	The stream gauge on Little Cypress Creek at County Road indicated the creek rose out of its banks.
May 2024	Hail	Deweyville	-	A report of half dollar sized hail was received from near Deweyville.
April 2016	Flash Flood	Deweyville	-	Water flooded Farm-to-Market 253 closing portions of the road.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	-	RAWS mesonet station KRBT2 measured a 59 mph wind gust.
March 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Deweyville	-	Trees down at Highways 253 and 82.
April 2000	Hail	Deweyville	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Deweyville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000346 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Newton County	All 6 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.