Built in 1950. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“The Columbia River Bridge, also known as the Bridgeport Bridge, at Bridgeport, Washington, was built to span the Columbia River in 1950. Composed of three spans, the bridge is a steel continuous riveted deck truss carrying Washington State Route 17 on a 26-foot-wide (7.9 m) roadway and two 3-foot (0.91 m) sidewalks.”
Wikipedia article Columbia River Bridge (Bridgeport, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1950.
National Register reference number.95000632- 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
48 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Columbia River Bridge at Bridgeport
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,542 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution
12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Debris and open burning
9
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
1
Firearms and explosives use
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 1993
Equipment and vehicle use
3.0 acres
Colville Agency
ZAHN ORCHA
30 September 2009
Arson/incendiarism
1.0 acres
Colville Agency
LAGRANGE ROAD
24 September 2000
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Colville Agency
JACK WELLS
21 September 2016
Power generation/transmission/distribution
under an acre
Colville Agency
SQUIRREL FIRE
19 September 1994
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Colville Agency
BRIDGEPORT
18 September 2011
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2.0 acres
Spokane District
CASTLE ROCK
14 September 1999
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Colville Agency
BRIDGEPORT
12 September 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5.4 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Columbia River Bridge at Bridgeport: 12 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Pumice, Stone, Dimension. 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
Bridgeport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood.
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.
Several reports of water inundating roads, rocks on roads, and temporary closures in Bridgeport, including Raymond Avenue, 20th Street, and 16th Street.
A member of the public reported one inch of rain that fell quickly from a thunderstorm and caused some flooding of Bridgeport Middle School in Bridgeport, WA. Damage and debris left on roads in the vicinity of the school are what caused most of the damage costs.
A member of the public posted photos of two large fir trees toppled in Bridgeport. A newspaper report indicated 680 customers lost power in Bridgeport. Time of event estimated from radar.
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.
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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