Range Line Road Bridge

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 300 National Register listings published here for Milwaukee County · listed in 2015 · category: Structure · built in 1935.

Sources: 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. Range Line Rd. over Milwaukee R., River Hills, 53217
When was it listed? July 2015
Category. structure
Village. River Hills village
When was it built? 1935
National Register reference number. 15000405 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

25 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Range Line Road Bridge between 2014 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1778249
9 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1768522
7 August 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1767727
21 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1772607
13 August 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1769924
8 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1804347
29 July 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1764515
13 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	1804468

Every fire recorded in Milwaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Range Line Road Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cerac Inc.	REE, Thorium	Past Producer
	Own Crews	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Milwaukee County

Storms near this property

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River Hills, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	River Hills	$5,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	River Hills	$2,000	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	River Hills	-	no account filed
September 2021	Hail	River Hills	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	River Hills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milwaukee 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Brown Deer School	1.7 miles	1993
Elderwood	2.3 miles	1980
Starke Meyer House	2.5 miles	1985
Albert and Edith Adelman House	2.8 miles	2005
Mary L. Nohl Art Environment	2.9 miles	2005
Town of Milwaukee Town Hall	3.0 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000405 in Record Group 79.
Milwaukee County	All 300 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.
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.