State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River is located in both Burnet and Llano counties in the U.S. state of Texas, between Buchanan Dam and Inks Lake. It is also known as Inks Lake Bridge, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in both counties on October 10, 1996.”
Wikipedia article State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Burnet County · listed in 1996 · 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 29 at the Llano Cnty. line, Buchanan Dam, 78611
When was it listed? October 1996
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Texas MPS
Census division. Burnet
National Register reference number. 96001116 - 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

141 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,143 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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	77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CIGERETTE FIRE
9 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 115 (12-0088)
29 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 142 (11-0119)
28 September 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PARK RD 4 (11-0116)
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-027513
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PENINSULA (1700125)
15 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 29 (16-0117)

Every fire recorded in Burnet County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of State Highway 29 Bridge at the Colorado River: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, REE, Vermiculite. 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	Recorded
Badu Hill Mine	Feldspar, REE	Past Producer	1936
Baringer Hill Mine	REE, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zirconium, Beryllium, Lead, Uranium, Titanium, Metal, Thorium, Molybdenum, Lithium, Rubidium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	1887
Road Material Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rose Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Granite
Friedsom	Vermiculite	Unknown
Rare-Earth Mine	REE	Past Producer	Gadolinite
Reed Prospect	Vermiculite	Occurrence	Residual
Sheridan Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Sheridan Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Bilbrough Marble Longhorn Cream Qy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Burnet 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

2 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
	Austin and Northwestern Railroad Historic District-Fairland to Llano	3.2 miles	1997
	Park Road 4 Historic District	5.1 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001116 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Burnet 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.