Photograph of Regency Bridge — Photograph by Aren Cambre, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Regency Suspension Bridge

Built in 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Regency Bridge, locally known as the "Swinging Bridge," is a one-lane suspension bridge over the Colorado River in Texas. It is located at the intersection of Mills County Road 433 and San Saba County Road 137, both gravel roads, near a small community called Regency.”
Wikipedia article Regency Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Mills County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1939.

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. 0.75 mi. S of Regency at Colorado River, Regency, 76877
When was it listed? December 1976
Category. structure
When was it built? 1939
National Register reference number. 76002052 - 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

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Regency Suspension Bridge between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,997 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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
30 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CARLISLE
29 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILLER
5 August 2012	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EDMONDSON
1 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CONELL
23 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	285 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	REGENCY FIRE
11 July 2020	Other causes	3,507 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BUFFALO CREEK
29 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CARLISLE GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mills 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 76002052 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mills County	All 3 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.