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Photograph of Seattle Railway Company Bridge 291.4
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company Bridge 291.4-O.W.R.&N. Crossing-Washtucna

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 2018 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. Milepost 291.4, former SP&S line crossing Yeisley Rd., Washtucna, 99371
  • When was it listed? December 2018
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Bridges of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company, 1906-1967 MPS
  • Census division. Lind-Washtucna
  • National Register reference number. 100003279 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company Bridge 291.4-O.W.R.&N. Crossing-Washtucna in 2016, burning about 4,033 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,033 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficePALOUSE FALLS

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company Bridge 291.4-O.W.R.&N. Crossing-Washtucna: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
State Pit Ps-Ad-142Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Charrie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Washtucna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Washtucna, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWashtucna1 killed, $15,000The Washtucna Community reported that a man lost his life during storm clean up. Due to strong winds, numerous trees were uprooted, property damage, and an unoccupied trailer was blown into a power pole.
July 2006HailWashtucna$1,000no account filed
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWashtucna-Strong winds from a thunderstorm destroyed a combine shed, uprooted 5 trees and blew off a roof of a barn. Winds also knocked out power to 40 customers.
July 2006HailWashtucna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Bassett Hardware Co. Store0.8 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003279 in Record Group 79.
Adams CountyAll 13 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.