Washington Avenue Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Washington Avenue Bridge in Waco, Texas was built in 1902 and was then the longest single-span vehicular truss bridge in Texas. It has a 450-foot (140 m) span across the Brazos River.”
Wikipedia article Washington Avenue Bridge (Waco, Texas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for McLennan County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Washington and wlm Aves. across Brazos River, Waxo, 76704
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. structure
Census division. Waco
National Register reference number. 98000143 - 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

662 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 662 fires within 5 miles of Washington Avenue Bridge between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,000 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	487
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	115
Power generation/transmission/distribution	20
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	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 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2530031
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	17-2520007
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	17-2520018
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2510033
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2510037
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2500034
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-2510003
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-2490003

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Washington Avenue Bridge: 10 producers, 1 past producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Pendley Pit	Silica	Producer
Universal Atlas Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Universal Atlas Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Waco Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bosqueville Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Burt Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
H and B No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
H and B No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Luckett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Neeley Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in McLennan 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Waco Suspension Bridge	under 500 feet	1970
McCulloch House	0.4 miles	1972
McClennan County Courthouse	0.5 miles	1978
Waco Drug Company	0.5 miles	2008
Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company Building	0.5 miles	1983
John Wesley Mann House	0.5 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000143 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
McLennan County	All 25 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.