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One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Owachomo Bridge Trail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- Address. Armstrong Canyon, Blanding, 84533
- When was it listed? February 1989
- Category. structure
- Census division. Blanding
- National Register reference number. 88001166 - 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
53 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Owachomo Bridge Trail between 1995 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Natural Bridges National Monument | NATURAL BRIDGE |
| 6 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Natural Bridges National Monument | KACHINA |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | CRYPTOWASH |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | MAVERICKPT |
| 13 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Natural Bridges National Monument | SIPAPU |
| 13 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | TUWA |
| 3 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | BRIDGES |
| 26 August 1998 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Moab Field Office | MOSS BACK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Owachomo Bridge Trail: 14 past producers, 6 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 5 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Copper, Copper, Uranium, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frey No. 4 | Uranium, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Ilsemannite, Jordisite | |
| Badger Mine | Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | Malachite | |
| Zebra No. 1 Prospect | Uranium, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Able-Sam Hill | Copper, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Baker | Copper, Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Camel | Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Fry 4 | Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | 1946 | |
| W N Mine | Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Bell Group | Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | 1951 | |
| Bell Group | Uranium, Copper | Unknown | 1951 |
Storms near this property
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanding, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 wildfire, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanding | $175,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Blanding | $30,000 | Heavy rainfall resulted in a flash flood within Arch Canyon with fast moving water at least four feet deep. An SUV that was parked along the Arch Canyon Trail road was carried down the canyon about 2.2 miles. The people who owned the SUV were camped on higher ground and had to hike out of the canyon for assistance after the flood waters subsided. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Blanding | $20,000 | Large hail damaged a number of vehicles and broke windows. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Blanding | - | A severe thunderstorm produced large hail estimated to be the size of half dollars west-northwest of Blanding. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Blanding | - | A severe thunderstorm produced large hail measured to be the size of golf balls in Blanding. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanding | - | The Blanding Cooperative Observer estimated a peak wind gust of 75 mph. |
| October 2015 | Hail | Blanding | - | Quarter-sized hail pounded an area near Blanding for about five minutes. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Blanding | - | Quarter size hail fell along Highway 191 about seven miles north of Blanding as reported by the sheriff's office. |
| July 2007 | Heavy Rain | Blanding | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain in the Cedar Point area in extreme east central San Juan County. 0.57 inches of rain was measured from the event, with most of the rainfall occurring in a 30 minute period. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Wildfire | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Heavy Rain | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Wildfire | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Wildfire | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Wildfire | Blanding | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Blanding | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center | 2.9 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001166 in Record Group 79. |
| San Juan County | All 23 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.