High Steel Bridge

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1929.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Spans Skokomish South Fork, Shelton, 98548
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. West Mason
When was it built? 1929
National Register reference number. 82004265 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of High Steel Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	10
Fireworks	9
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	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 2013	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	FIR CREEK
6 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Olympic National Forest	STEEL BRIDGE 2
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOUTH SLOPE
5 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	not named
30 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LEEDS
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	FLAT MILKSHAKE
26 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	104 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SOUTH FORK

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of High Steel Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	One Two Five Zero Road Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flood. 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
January 2009	Flood	Shelton	$900,000	There was flooding along the Skokomish River. Several homes in Shelton flooded, most from local creeks. Several roads in the area were also flooded, including SR 106 and 108.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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

4 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
Vance Creek Bridge	3.0 miles	1982
Cushman No. 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant	4.5 miles	1988
Cushman Hydroelectric Project Historic District	4.6 miles	2015
Cushman No. 2 Hydroelectric Power Plant	4.8 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004265 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mason County	All 16 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.