Middle Fork Nooksack River Bridge

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure · built in 1915.

Sources: 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. Mosquito Lake Rd., Acme, 98244
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. East Whatcom
When was it built? 1915
National Register reference number. 82004305 - 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

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Middle Fork Nooksack River Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	13
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 1995	Fireworks	50 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH DYKE TIRE
1 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	WEXLA
20 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POTTER ROAD
2 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LOST BOYS

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Middle Fork Nooksack River Bridge: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Asbestos, Magnesite. 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
Anacortes Veneer Inc.	Uranium	Occurrence
Bowman Mountain Asbestos	Asbestos	Occurrence
Meuer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Swen Larson Quarry	Magnesite	Producer
Deming Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Nooksack River Sandstone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Welcome Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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 82004305 in Record Group 79.
Whatcom County	All 74 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.