F Street Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

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. Spans Palouse River, Palouse, 99161
When was it listed? July 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
Census division. Colfax-Palouse
National Register reference number. 82004308 - 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of F Street Bridge between 2019 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	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
5 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RUDD
3 May 2019	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	CHANEY
19 March 2020	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	WALKER

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of F Street Bridge: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Silica. 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
Duffield Creek Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Palouse	Clay	Past Producer
Ringo	Gemstone	Occurrence
Ringo Hills	Silica	Occurrence
Cox Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ringo	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman County

Storms near this property

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palouse, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 lightning, 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 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Palouse	$30,000	Strong thunderstorm winds damaged one vehicle, homes, and a local park. A trained spotter reported that the winds downed trees which caused the damage in Palouse, Washington. There were no known injuries.
February 2025	Flood	Palouse	$5,000	An estimated 3 feet of water in basement for several buildings along the Palouse River.
April 2012	Flood	Palouse	$5,000	Hayton Green Park in Palouse was flooded as well as the residence at 415 West Main Street near the park. Flooding was also observed up to the base of the house in the neighboring property. Damage was estimated.
August 2007	Lightning	Palouse	$1,000	no account filed
June 2022	Flood	Palouse	-	An estimated 2 to 3 feet of flooding at the Lions Club Park from the Palouse River.

Every storm recorded in Whitman 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.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Palouse Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1986
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church	0.5 miles	2005
R. C. McCroskey House	7.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004308 in Record Group 79.
Whitman County	All 39 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.