Beverly Railroad Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Beverly Railroad Bridge is a historic railroad bridge that now carries hikers, bicyclists, and pedestrians over the Columbia River near Beverly, Washington, United States. It was constructed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.”
Wikipedia article Beverly Railroad Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Grant 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 Columbia River, Beverly, 99321
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Mattawa-Royal City
National Register reference number. 82004214 - 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Beverly Railroad Bridge between 1999 and 2020, burning about 55,365 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	788 acres	Spokane District	BEVERLY BURKE
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6,262 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	LOWER CRAB CREEK
16 August 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	20 acres	Spokane District	SENTINEL
9 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Columbia National Wildlife Refuge	LK LANIECE
6 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	68 acres	Spokane District	HWY 243
5 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.5 acres	Spokane District	BEVERLY
24 July 2019	Natural	124 acres	Spokane District	SADDLE MOUNTAIN
23 July 2019	Natural	2.4 acres	Spokane District	WANAPUM DAM

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beverly Railroad Bridge: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Beverly	Pumice	Past Producer
Cohasett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sentinel Bluff	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beverly, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beverly	-	A Mesonet station in Mattawa, Washington measured a wind gust of 68 mph.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beverly	-	Measured at the Vantage Washington DOT sensor.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Beverly	-	Location: Priest Rapids Dam

Every storm recorded in Grant 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004214 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 9 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.