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One of 30 National Register listings published here for Cowlitz County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1945.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Jim Creek Bridge
Built in 1945. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. WA 503 over Jim Cr., Woodland, 98603
- When was it listed? March 1995
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Bridges of Washington State MPS
- Census division. Woodland
- When was it built? 1945
- National Register reference number. 95000258 - 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
75 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Jim Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | AMBOY RD |
| 6 September 1994 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DAVIS PEAK |
| 28 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PUP FIRE |
| 27 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PH FIRE |
| 23 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | COYOTE |
| 20 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CROCKET |
| 12 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jim Creek Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 debris flow. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2004 | Heavy Rain | Woodland | 4 hurt | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Debris Flow | Woodland | $100,000 | An atmospheric river that brought heavy rain caused a landslide that sent debris across I-5 north of Woodland, WA near milepost 24. Around 2.2 inches of rain fell in the Woodland area. Northbound lanes on I-5 were closed for more than 3 hours. |
| February 2017 | Heavy Rain | Woodland | - | Additional heavy rain caused a landslide on I-5 near Woodland. |
| November 2006 | Flood | Woodland | - | The Lewis River at Woodland crested at 24.7 feet on November 7th, with a flood stage of 24.0 feet. |
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 95000258 in Record Group 79. |
| Cowlitz County | All 30 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.