Lake Keechelus Snowshed Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass, Hyak, 98068
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Bridges of Washington State MPS
Census division. Cle Elum
National Register reference number. 95000627 - 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Lake Keechelus Snowshed Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	8
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	3
Fireworks	2

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
8 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	OUTSIDE THE BOX
8 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	not named
7 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	LOST BEACH
4 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	403 ROAD
4 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	LOST LAKE
3 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	TWIN LAKES

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lake Keechelus Snowshed Bridge: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Qurry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Crystal Springs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000627 in Record Group 79.
Kittitas County	All 23 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.