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Photograph of Rosalia Railroad Bridge
Photograph by Conifers, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rosalia Railroad Bridge

Built in 1915. 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 · built in 1915.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. WA 271, Rosalia, 99170
  • When was it listed? July 1982
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges/Tunnels in Washington State TR
  • Census division. Rosalia
  • When was it built? 1915
  • National Register reference number. 82004310 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rosalia Railroad Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROSALIA
19 August 1999Natural3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 July 1992Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 June 2013Naturalunder an acreTurnbull National Wildlife RefugePHILLOE STRIKE
19 May 2012Debris and open burning72 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBABB ROAD
4 October 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROSALIA
4 October 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH OLD 195

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Rosalia Railroad Bridge: 12 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dorsey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Durham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Pine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterschick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterschick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rosalia Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman County

Storms near this property

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosalia, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2014Thunderstorm WindRosalia$4,500Strong winds behind the squall line blew a road sign into a vehicle traveling on State Route 195.
February 2025FloodRosalia-Washed out dirt road with water flowing through.
December 2022FloodRosalia-Water was over the roadway on SR 271 between MP 7 and 8.
June 2006Funnel CloudRosalia-no account filed

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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Steptoe Battlefield Site0.5 miles1976
Central Service Station1.0 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82004310 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Whitman CountyAll 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.