Photograph of Lewis and Clark Bridge — Photograph by Cacophony, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Longview Bridge

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Lewis and Clark Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Longview, Washington, and Rainier, Oregon. It is the only bridge over the Columbia between Astoria and Portland.”
Wikipedia article Lewis and Clark Bridge (Columbia River), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Cowlitz County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1930, by Joseph Strauss.

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 Columbia river, Longview, 97048
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Longview-Kelso
When was it built? 1930
Architect. Joseph Strauss
National Register reference number. 82004208 - 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Longview Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Other causes	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Fireworks	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MILL STREET
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HWY 30 ALSTON MAYGER
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	OWL CREEK
5 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OLD RAINIER ROAD #2
4 September 1992	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	PELLHAM HILL RD.
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COTTONWOOD POINT FIRE
28 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HARBOR VIEW DR. #1
20 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Longview Bridge: 25 past producers, 10 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
(Facility) Longview Aluminum Smelter	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant
Bauxite Kalama-Rainer	Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence
Kalama-Ranier Bauxite Occurrence	Aluminum	Occurrence
Mount 5640 Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Bernards Excavating	Stone	Past Producer
C Zimmermann	Stone	Past Producer
Columbia West Materials & Const	Stone	Past Producer
Just-A-Mere Farm Inc	Stone	Past Producer
Just-A-Mere Farm Inc	Stone	Past Producer
Pete Matiaco	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longview, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 flood, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2019	Lightning	Longview	1 hurt	A Longview mill worker was struck by lightning, and taken to the hospital. This information was discovered from a local media source who wrote an article about the incident.
September 2020	Flood	Longview	$250,000,000	Widespread street flooding in Longview resulting in several businesses in the downtown area experiencing flooding. The first floor of the local Hospital also flooded due to heavy rain. Several videos received from the emergency manager and also noted from broadcast media reports.
December 2015	Heavy Rain	Longview	$2,098,000	Heavy rain resulted in multiple land slides between Longview and Kalama. Highway 30 and Kalama River Road were closed due to multiple slides and stranded some residents. A land slide hit a residence and trapped the owner with no injuries.
October 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Longview	$182,000	Law enforcement confirmed that a tornado touched down near the Safeway in Longview, WA around 1240 PM. The tornado then traveled down Vandercook Way before dissipating near Main St. There was significant roof damage to industrial buildings, minor roof damage to residential buildings, 35 to 30 large trees snapped off or blew down, some power poles downed, and automobiles damaged from debris.
October 2024	Tornado (EF0)	Longview	-	A short-lived waterspout over the Columbia River near the Lewis and Clark bridge at Longview occurred with multiple photos taken from the Lewis and Clark Bridge to the west. Indicated on radar and media reported.
March 2017	Flood	Longview	-	Recent heavy rains in addition to snow melt upstream caused the Columbia River near Longview to flood. The river crested at 13.92 feet on March 30th, which is 0.42 feet above flood stage.
February 2017	Flood	Longview	-	Heavy rain caused the Cowlitz River near Kelso to flood. The river crested at 21.6 feet, which is 0.01 feet above flood stage.
January 2006	Flood	Longview	-	no account filed
January 2006	Flood	Longview	-	no account filed
December 2005	Flood	Longview	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cowlitz 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
Longview Community Church-Saint Helen's Addition	1.8 miles	1985
Longview Community Store	1.9 miles	1985
First Christian Church	2.4 miles	1985
Longview Women's Clubhouse	2.5 miles	1985
Longview Community Church	2.5 miles	1985
Lake Sacajawea Park	2.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004208 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cowlitz County	All 30 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.