Lincoln Highway Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Lincoln Highway Bridge, also known as Government Creek Bridge, is located in the Great Salt Lake Desert on the United States Army's Dugway Proving Ground in southern Tooele County, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It once served an original proposed alignment of the Lincoln Highway, an historic transcontinental auto route.”
Wikipedia article Lincoln Highway Bridge (Dugway Proving Ground, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

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. In Dog Area on 2nd St. over Government Creek, Dugway Proving Ground
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. site
Census division. Dugway-Wendover
National Register reference number. 75001825 - 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Highway Bridge between 2003 and 2012, burning about 432 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
Debris and open burning	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Natural	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
11 August 2003	Natural	64 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	SOLDIER PA
24 June 2009	Firearms and explosives use	70 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	GUN RANGE
21 June 2012	Debris and open burning	298 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	TTU

Every fire recorded in Tooele 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 75001825 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tooele County	All 29 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.