South Puyallup River Bridge

Built in 1931 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The South Puyallup River Bridge was built in 1930-31 in Mount Rainier National Park as part of the West Side Road project, planned to link the park's Nisqually and Carbon River entrances. The stone-faced reinforced concrete bridge was designed by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads.”
Wikipedia article South Puyallup River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Structure · built in 1931, National Park Service rustic.

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, Nisqually Entrance, 98304
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. structure
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
Census division. Mount Rainier
When was it built? 1931
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 91000198 - 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of South Puyallup River Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
21 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER
9 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER CREEK
6 August 2006	Smoking	1.5 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	GLACIER VIEW
28 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	HUCKLEBERRY
27 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	59 ROAD
26 August 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	COPPER CREEK
2 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Gifford Pinchot National Forest	CHRISTINE

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Puyallup River Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Hall Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Messler Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Tahoma Vista Comfort Station	1.0 miles	1991
Lake George Patrol Cabin	1.1 miles	1991
Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout	1.4 miles	1991
St. Andrews Patrol Cabin	2.0 miles	1991
St. Andrews Creek Bridge	2.0 miles	1991
Indian Henry's Patrol Cabin	2.6 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000198 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.