Rock Island Railroad Bridge

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Rock Island Railroad Bridge is a BNSF Railway bridge across the Columbia River at Rock Island, Washington. The structure consists of one through truss, one deck truss, and an approach trestle.”
Wikipedia article Rock Island Railroad Bridge (Columbia River), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1893.

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. SW of Rock Island over the Columbia River, Rock Island, 98828
When was it listed? July 1975
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR (AD); Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Malaga
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 75001842 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rock Island Railroad Bridge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 95,822 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Firearms and explosives use	2

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
18 September 2016	Firearms and explosives use	12 acres	Spokane District	ROCK ISLAND CREEK
9 August 2013	Natural	5,541 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MILEPOST 10
5 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	CAYUSE
30 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	not named
27 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80,053 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COLOCKUM TARPS
15 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	INVISIBLE TOM
12 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Spokane District	JUMP OFF

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Rock Island Railroad Bridge: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Stemilt School Road A	Silica	Occurrence
Stemilt School Road B	Silica	Occurrence
Alcoa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hartl Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kawecki Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Malaga Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Palmer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rock Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chelan 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

3 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
Columbia River Bridge at Wenatchee	7.3 miles	1995
Columbia River Bridge	7.4 miles	1982
Columbia River Bridge	7.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001842 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chelan County	All 46 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.