BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Stevens County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Red Mountain Railroad 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 Little Sheep Creek, Northport, 99157
- When was it listed? July 1982
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
- Census division. Kettle Falls
- National Register reference number. 82004296 - 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
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Red Mountain Railroad Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. 24 started naturally. None 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 | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | UPPER SHEEP FALLS |
| 18 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PHOENIX ACRES |
| 1 September 2009 | Natural | 115 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 9 MILE BRIDGE |
| 1 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | BIG FOOT |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MITCHELL ROAD |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | QUARTZ CREEK |
| 5 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SALTESE LAST CHOICE |
| 5 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LITTLE BO SHEEP |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 54 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Red Mountain Railroad Bridge: 19 occurrences, 17 prospects, 9 past producers, 5 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Northport Smelter Quarry | Limestone, General | Plant | ||
| A. C. Neiman | Tungsten, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Coyote | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Coyote | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Coyote Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Double Standard | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Hubbard | Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Hubbard | Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Lone Star | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Moore | Gold, Copper, Silver | Prospect |
Storms near this property
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports in 2015: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | A COOP observer reported 1.75 inch hail 2 miles south of Northport, WA. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | A trained spotter reported one inch size hail 9 miles west southwest of Northport, WA. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | A trained spotter reported one inch hail 8 miles southeast of Northport, Washington. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | - | An emergency manager reported a treee fell over onto a house. Time was based off radar. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | An emergency manager relayed multiple reports 2 to 5 miles south and southwest of Northport, Washington along highway 25 of one inch size hail. Some areas accumulating this hail to a 1 to 1.5 inch depth. |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Columbia River Bridge at Northport | 3.5 miles | 1995 |
| Northport School | 3.9 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004296 in Record Group 79. |
| Stevens County | All 19 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.