Duckabush River Bridge

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Duckabush River Bridge is a bridge over the Duckabush River in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, United States. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Duckabush River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1934.

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 Duckabush River, Duckabush, 98320
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Quilcene Bay-Brinnon
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 82004219 - 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Duckabush River Bridge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 66 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PAYNE
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 2003	Fireworks	12 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
22 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HOT SPIT
19 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Duckabush River Bridge: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bucks Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Davies Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pierce Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Seabheck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
	Interrorem Guard Station-Olympic National Forest	4.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004219 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 75 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.