Elwha River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Elwha River Bridge was built around 1913 to span the Elwha River, Washington. The bridge was closed and then demolished in late 2007 due to concerns regarding its structure after the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse.”
Wikipedia article Elwha River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 1982 · 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. Old Hwy. 112, Elwha, 98363
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Crescent
National Register reference number. 82004200 - 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Elwha River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 were 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	18
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	4
Other causes	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle 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
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ELWHA RSRT
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MISTY
20 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DAN KELLY ROAD
20 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ELWHA DAM
19 September 1992	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Elwha River Bridge: 24 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Stone, Dimension. 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
Ozette Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Griff Creek	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Lady Norma	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Elwha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Shore Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Aldwell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Angeles Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Black Diamond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eden Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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

6 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
Elwha River Hydroelectric Power Plant	0.4 miles	1988
Elwah Campground Community Kitchen	5.3 miles	2007
Masonic Temple	5.6 miles	1989
Joseph Paris House	5.7 miles	1987
Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District	5.8 miles	2007
U.S. Post Office	5.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004200 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam County	All 43 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.