Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Grande Ronde River Bridge, near Asotin in Asotin County in southeast Washington, is a riveted steel girder bridge which was built in 1941. It is notable as the first, or one of the first, steel girder bridges in the Washington State highway system, and was a prototype for later ones.”
Wikipedia article Grande Ronde River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Asotin County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1941.
National Register reference number.95000262- 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 Grande Ronde River Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,349 acres in total. 23 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
23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Recreation and ceremony
5
Debris and open burning
2
Fireworks
1
Smoking
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 2002
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
24 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources
EAST MOUNTAIN
2 September 2012
Smoking
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BMIDC INC 857 - COUGAR CONFL
11 September 2019
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Umatilla National Forest
MCMILLAN SPRING
11 September 1996
Natural
1,000 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
11 September 1994
Natural
under an acre
Umatilla National Forest
not named
8 August 2008
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
MALLORY RIDGE
7 August 2008
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Grande Ronde River Bridge: 5 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Asotin, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
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.
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.
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