Photograph of Kettle Falls Bridges — Photograph by Jet Lowe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Columbia River Bridge at Kettle Falls

Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Kettle Falls Bridges is the collective name for a pair of steel cantilever bridges carrying State Route 20/U.S. Route 395 and the Kettle Falls International Railway across the Columbia River at Kettle Falls, Washington.”
Wikipedia article Kettle Falls Bridges, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Ferry County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1941, by Washington State Department of Transportation.

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. US 395 over the Columbia R., Kettle Falls, 99141
When was it listed? March 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Bridges of Washington State MPS
When was it built? 1941
Architect. Washington State Department of Transportation
National Register reference number. 95000260 - 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

257 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Columbia River Bridge at Kettle Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,056 acres in total. 44 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50
Recreation and ceremony	45
Natural	44
Debris and open burning	37
Fireworks	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Other causes	7
Smoking	4

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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	484 acres	Colville National Forest	BISBEE MOUNTAIN
8 September 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Colville National Forest	SOUTH TROUT
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIFER ROAD
7 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	KAMLOOPS
7 September 1994	Other causes	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	CAMPFIRE41
5 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area	CAMPFIRE42
4 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	13 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PEACH CREST

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Columbia River Bridge at Kettle Falls: 31 occurrences, 13 past producers, 13 prospects, 4 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Copper, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bonnie Group	Chromium	Past Producer
City View	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
City View	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Columbia River	Copper, Antimony, Gold, Silver	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Columbia, Coyote, Gray Eagle	Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Cornet	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Gold Reef	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Gold Reef	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Gray Eagle Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Lead	Past Producer	1900, 1903
Kettle Falls	Brick Clay	Occurrence	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Ferry 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Paul's Mission	0.5 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ferry County	All 12 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.