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Photograph of DMJ Pick Bridge
Photograph by Clayton B. Fraser, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

DMJ Pick Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The DMJ Pick Bridge is a Parker through truss bridge located near Saratoga, Wyoming, which carries Carbon County Road CN6-508 across the North Platte River. The bridge was built from 1909 to 1910 by contractor Charles G.”

Wikipedia article DMJ Pick Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon 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. Rd. CN6-508 (Pick Bridge Rd.), Saratoga, 82331
  • When was it listed? February 1985
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming TR
  • Census division. Saratoga
  • National Register reference number. 85000418 - 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of DMJ Pick Bridge between 2009 and 2016, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeHAYBALE NO 2
11 April 2016Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeSANGER

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of DMJ Pick Bridge: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brook DepositUraniumOccurrence
Six Mile HillUraniumUnknown
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-The wind senor at the Saratoga Airport measured a gust of 60 mph.
June 2010FloodSaratoga-Excessive snow melt caused the North Platte river to flood the public golf course and Veteran's Island. Estimated time and duration of event.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Platte River Crossing4.8 miles1971
Saratoga Masonic Hall6.9 miles1978
Hotel Wolf7.0 miles1974
Hugus Hardware7.0 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 43 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.