Snake River Bridge

Built in 1968. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Snake River Bridge, is located on State Route 261 at the confluence of the Snake and Palouse Rivers, near Starbuck, Washington, USA. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is located next to Lyons Ferry Park.”
Wikipedia article Snake River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1968.

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. N of SR 12, Lyons Ferry, 99359
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Starbuck
When was it built? 1968
National Register reference number. 82004207 - 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Snake River Bridge in 2017, burning about 518 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/undetermined	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
19 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	518 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	JOE BARKER RD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Snake River Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Lyons Ferry	Pumice	Occurrence
Grange City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Starbuck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
	Bank of Starbuck	6.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 20 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.