Dungeness River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Dungeness River Bridge is the centerpiece of Railroad Bridge Park near the town of Sequim, Washington. The bridge was first constructed by the Seattle, Port Angeles, and Western Railway, a subsidiary of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.”
Wikipedia article Dungeness 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. Spans Dungeness River, Sequim, 98382
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Sequim
Architect. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
National Register reference number. 82004201 - 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

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Dungeness River Bridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 69 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	8
Fireworks	5
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GREYS MARSH
3 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RIVERVIEW
27 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOAD ROAD #2
16 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	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 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Dungeness River Bridge: 15 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Manganese. 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
Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese	Past Producer
Hallers Pit	Stone, Dimension	Producer
One Ok Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Blake Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Christie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eberle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Evans Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hastings Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lotzgazelle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sequim, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 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
February 1999	Heavy Rain	Sequim	$100,000	no account filed
March 2015	Heavy Rain	Sequim	$30,000	Several homes and apartments around Sequim were flooded as a result of local heavy rainfall of 1 to 2 inches in less than 12 hours.

Every storm 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
Sequim Opera House	2.1 miles	1991
Dungeness School	4.1 miles	1988
McAlmond House	4.5 miles	1976
Aircraft Warning Service Observation Tower	4.9 miles	1993
Emery Farmstead	5.4 miles	1988
Blue Mountain School	6.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004201 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.
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.