San Rafael Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The San Rafael Bridge is a historic suspension bridge over the San Rafael River in central Emery County, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article San Rafael Bridge (Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Emery 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. Co. Rd. 3-32 over the San Rafael River, approximately 23 mi. SE of Castle Dale, Castle Dale
When was it listed? June 1996
Category. structure
Census division. Green River
National Register reference number. 96000617 - 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

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of San Rafael Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	PINE CANYO
24 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.6 acres	Moab Field Office	THE WEDGE

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of San Rafael Bridge: 12 producers, 6 occurrences, 6 past producers, 6 prospects. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Copper, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Dexter #5	Uranium, Copper	Producer	1949
Lone Tree	Vanadium, Copper, Uranium	Prospect	1950
Lone Tree Group	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Malachite, Zippeite
Blue Bird	Copper, Uranium	Prospect	Underground
Dexter #7	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	1949
Dexter 7	Uranium, Copper	Producer	1945, 1950
Jasmine #1	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Uraninite
Jasmine #1	Uranium, Copper	Prospect
Bluebird	Uranium	Occurrence
Buckhorn #1, #2	Uranium	Producer

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Dale, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Castle Dale	$10,000	TSTM wind gust blew roof off buliding
September 2013	Hail	Castle Dale	-	Hail with a diameter of one inch was reported in Castle Dale.
August 2006	Hail	Castle Dale	-	Nickle to quarter size hail.
August 2005	Hail	Castle Dale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emery 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

1 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
	Denver and Rio Grande Lime Kiln	7.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000617 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emery County	All 16 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.