BlockFrom the record
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Walla Walla County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Johnson 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 Touchet River, Lowden, 99360
- When was it listed? July 1982
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
- Census division. Touchet
- National Register reference number. 82004302 - 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
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Johnson Bridge in 2016, burning about 771 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 771 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | SIMMS RD. |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Johnson Bridge: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodd Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sims Road Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dodds Road | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Dry Creek | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Pleasant Ridge Road | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Strohmaier | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Touchet | Pumice | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowden, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Flood | Lowden | - | The Walla Walla river near Touchet, (flood stage 13.0 feet) crested at 14.2 feet at 2245 on March 16th. Fell below flood stage by 1100 on the 17th. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Lowden | - | The Walla Walla river near Touchet (flood stage 13.0 feet) crested at 13.6 feet at 0400 on March 11. Then fell below flood stage around 1300 on the same day. |
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 82004302 in Record Group 79. |
| Walla Walla County | All 32 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.