Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Vance Creek Bridge is an arch bridge in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington that was built for a logging railroad owned by the Simpson Logging Company in 1929. At 347 feet (106 m) in height, it is the second-highest railroad arch in the United States after the nearby High Steel Bridge.”
Wikipedia article Vance Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. West Mason
National Register reference number.82004266- 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
44 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Vance Creek Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 369 acres in total. 5 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
11
Fireworks
9
Recreation and ceremony
8
Debris and open burning
5
Natural
5
Arson/incendiarism
5
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
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
14 September 2016
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
SKOKOMISH VALLEY
5 August 2015
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Vance Creek 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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