Narada Falls Bridge

Built in 1927 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Narada Falls Bridge is an arch bridge in Mount Rainier National Park, spanning Paradise River above Narada Falls. The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on March 13, 1991.”
Wikipedia article Narada Falls Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure · built in 1927, rustic architecture, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/cd979cf014d2837559f07291d850f148.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Mt. Rainier National Park, Paradise, 98361
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. structure
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
When was it built? 1927
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/cd979cf014d2837559f07291d850f148
National Register reference number. 91000197 - 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Narada Falls Bridge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 26 acres in total. 25 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	25
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	NISQUALLY FIRE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	VISTA
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	MAZAMA
27 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	B23
25 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	VANTRUMP1
25 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	TATOOSH
24 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COUGARROCK
17 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	HORSE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Narada Falls Bridge: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Geothermal, Arsenic, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper. 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	Recorded
Eagle Peak	Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Eagle Peak	Copper, Uranium, Silver, Gold, Cobalt	Past Producer
Eagle Peak Mine	Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Molybdenum, Uranium, Arsenic	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Longmire Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Paradise Prospect	Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Paradise	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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

6 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
Narada Falls Comfort Station	under 500 feet	1991
Paradise Historic District	0.9 miles	1991
Paradise Inn	1.0 miles	1987
Edith Creek Chlorination House	1.4 miles	1991
Christine Falls Bridge	1.6 miles	1991
Mount Rainier National Park	3.0 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000197 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce County	All 215 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.