Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Curlew Bridge is a one-lane, pin-connected Parker Truss bridge originally built in 1908 at Curlew, Washington, US, to span the Kettle River just downstream from the point where the river turns north. After many years of partial repairs, the bridge was dismantled and rebuilt during 2006-2007, to restore the entire structure.”
Wikipedia article Curlew Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Ferry County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Curlew
National Register reference number.82004210- 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
115 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Curlew Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,811 acres in total. 70 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
Natural
70
Debris and open burning
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Other causes
2
Smoking
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
9 September 2004
Natural
under an acre
Colville National Forest
231
8 September 2009
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
KETTLE
8 September 1998
Natural
under an acre
Colville National Forest
MERRY GOOSMUS
7 September 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
2,208 acres
Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources
CUSTOMS ROAD
7 September 2013
Natural
under an acre
Colville National Forest
VULCAN PINCH
6 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2009
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
HARRIER THAN ME
21 September 2008
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
22 workings within 5 miles of Curlew Bridge: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Curlew, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire.
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.
Social media reports of strong winds and minor damage to trees and property near and north of curlew. Damaged tree branches have a 3 inch plus diameter. Time and location estimated based on radar.
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
2 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.
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.
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