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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pend Oreille County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Idaho and Wash. Northern RR Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Spans Pend Oreille River, off WA 31, Metaline Falls, 99139
- When was it listed? July 1982
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
- Census division. Ione-Metaline Falls
- National Register reference number. 82004270 - 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
52 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Idaho and Wash. Northern RR Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LOST CREEK |
| 13 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Colville National Forest | WEREWOLF (RED FLAG) |
| 9 August 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Colville National Forest | not named |
| 5 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Colville National Forest | TALKING SMACK |
| 4 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | DRY CANYON |
| 4 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | COOKS SPUR |
| 3 August 1994 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | DUSTY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 44 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Idaho and Wash. Northern RR Bridge: 16 occurrences, 16 past producers, 11 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bella May | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Cadmium | Occurrence | ||
| Bella May Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | 1906 | |
| Bella May Mine | Zinc, Cadmium, Lead, Silver, Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Bella May, Diamond R., Polly Molly | Molybdenum, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Blue Bucket | Zinc, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Blue Bucket | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Blue Jim | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Blue Jim | Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Antimony | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Siderite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Coffin | Zinc, Molybdenum, Lead, Feldspar, Asbestos | Prospect | ||
| Coffin, Torelle, State Lease | Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Molybdenite, Sphalerite |
Storms near this property
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metaline Falls, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 1 debris flow, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2018 | Flood | Metaline Falls | $8,000,000 | The USGS River Flow Gage at Abeni Falls Dam which controls the flow of the Pend Oreille River surpassed the Flood Flow of 95,000 Cubic Feet per Second (CFS) at 2:30 PM PST on May 11th. The flow increased and passed through the Moderate Flood Flow of 115,000 CFS at 12:15 PM on May 18th. The flow continued to increase and peaked at the Moderate Flood reading of 121,000 CFS at at 5:00 AM on May 27th. The flow continued to fluctuate between 118,000 CFS and 121,000 CFS through the end of May. The flow receded to below the Flood Flow on June 6th. |
| April 2017 | Debris Flow | Metaline Falls | $200,000 | Periodic heavy rain and spring time snow melt continued to cause travel problems in Pend Oreille County through the first half of April. Numerous secondary roads were damaged or cut by small stream and field flooding and debris flows. Most notably, Flowery Trail Road which crosses a mountain range and connects the towns of Usk and Chewelah was closed due to dangerous and unstable conditions caused by a 300 yard section of hillside slowly flowing onto the road bed. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Metaline Falls | - | A member of the public reported quarter size hail on Sullivan Creek from a thunderstorm near Metaline Falls. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Metaline Falls School | 5.8 miles | 1988 |
 | Pend Oreille Mines and Metals Building | 5.9 miles | 1997 |
 | Washington Hotel | 5.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Lewis P. Larson House | 6.0 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004270 in Record Group 79. |
| Pend Oreille 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.