Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Northport Bridge spans the Columbia River near Northport, Washington, close to the border with Canada. The steel cantilever through-truss bridge replaced an 1897 timber bridge, and was opened in 1951.”
Wikipedia article Northport Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Stevens County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.95000624- 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
73 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Columbia River Bridge at Northport
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,095 acres in total. 26 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
26
Debris and open burning
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Recreation and ceremony
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Smoking
1
Other causes
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
9 September 2012
Natural
under an acre
Colville National Forest
CHILLY FLAGSTAFF
8 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
UPPER SHEEP FALLS
8 September 2009
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
25 SHOCK SPOTS
7 September 2009
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WILCOX
4 September 2003
Railroad operations and maintenance
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
30 September 2014
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
TROMBETTA
29 September 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
83 workings within 5 miles of Columbia River Bridge at Northport: 26 occurrences, 25 prospects, 19 past producers, 6 producers.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver. 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
Northport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports in 2015: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
An emergency manager relayed multiple reports 2 to 5 miles south and southwest of Northport, Washington along highway 25 of one inch size hail. Some areas accumulating this hail to a 1 to 1.5 inch depth.
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
3 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.
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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