Grand Coulee Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Grand Coulee Bridge, or Columbia River Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam, is a through-cantilever steel truss bridge built in 1934-35. It carries State Route 155 across the Columbia River immediately below Grand Coulee Dam, near the city of Grand Coulee, Washington.”
Wikipedia article Grand Coulee Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Okanogan 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, Grand Coulee, 99116
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
National Register reference number. 82004267 - 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Grand Coulee Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,536 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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
Fireworks	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	2
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
9 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Colville Agency	MANILA CR
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colville Agency	ELMER CITY TRAILER P
28 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Colville Agency	ELMER CITY GUARDRAIL
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	SPRING CANYON
2 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	12 acres	Colville Agency	SEATONS GROVE
19 September 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	227 acres	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	SPRINGCANY
13 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colville Agency	USBR DUMP
12 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	230 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	230 SWITCH YARD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Grand Coulee Bridge: 13 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum. 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	Recorded
Black - Rosauer	Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Bismuth	Producer	Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Black-Rosauer	Silver, Bismuth, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Coulee City Deposit	Aluminum	Occurrence
Electric City	Molybdenum, Bismuth, Gold, Beryllium, Silver	Prospect
Peterson	Uranium	Occurrence
State Pit Ps-T-158	Stone	Past Producer
Black Rosauer-Electric City	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Hope No. 1	Silver, Gold	Prospect
Silver Queen	Silver	Prospect
Allied Concrete Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Okanogan 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 82004267 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Okanogan 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.