EJE Bridge over Shell Creek

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The EJE Bridge over Shell Creek is a Warren pony truss bridge located near Shell, Wyoming, which carries Big Horn County Road CN9-57 across Shell Creek. The bridge was built in 1920 by the Midland Bridge Company, the only firm to bid for the bridge contract.”
Wikipedia article EJE Bridge over Shell Creek, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Cty. Rd. CN9-57, Shell, 82441
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming TR
Census division. Central Big Horn
National Register reference number. 85000415 - 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

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of EJE Bridge over Shell Creek between 1995 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	6

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
2 September 2017	Debris and open burning	72 acres	Worland Field Office	DOUGLAS DRAW
16 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Cody Field Office	WELDER
16 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Worland Field Office	SHELL
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Cody Field Office	RED BUTTE
19 August 2006	Debris and open burning	8.8 acres	Worland Field Office	CRYSTAL
10 August 2012	Natural	2.3 acres	Cody Field Office	COYOTE DEN
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cody Field Office	BEAVER CREEK
9 July 2014	Natural	3.5 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of EJE Bridge over Shell Creek: 13 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Clay, Pumice, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence
Unknown	Pumice	Occurrence
Unknown	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Unknown
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Big Hill Group	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this property

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shell, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2024	Flash Flood	Shell	$10,000	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shell	$3,000	Trees were downed across U.S. Highway 14 between mile markers 20 and 21 in Shell Canyon.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shell	$2,500	Trees and power lines were reported down near Beaver Creek west of Shell.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shell	$1,000	A trained spotter along U.S. Highway 14 reported estimated winds around 70 mph and numerous branches blown off trees.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Shell	$500	Large branches were blown off trees west of Shell.
June 2015	Hail	Shell	-	Hail up to the size of pennies was reported by trained spotters north of Shell.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Shell	-	A 60 mph wind gust was reported at a remote automated weather station northeast of Shell on the western slope of the Bighorn Mountains.

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Shell Community Hall	1.2 miles	2022
	Lower Shell School House	6.6 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Big Horn County	All 16 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.