BMU Bridge over Wind River

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The BMU Bridge over Wind River is a Parker through truss bridge located near Ethete, Wyoming, that carries Wyoming Highway 132 across the Wind River. The bridge was built circa 1935 as one of seven Parker truss bridges commissioned by the Wyoming Highway Department.”
Wikipedia article BMU Bridge over Wind River, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Fremont 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. WY 132, Ethete, 82516
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming TR
Census division. Wind River Reservation
National Register reference number. 85000421 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of BMU Bridge over Wind River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 5 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
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Smoking	7
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Fireworks	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Wind River Agency	SOUTHFORK
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fremont County	11400 US HWY 26
17 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wind River Agency	ANTONE
8 August 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
7 August 2020	Natural	13 acres	Wind River Agency	HELLS HILL 2
5 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Lander Field Office	KINNEAR
5 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of BMU Bridge over Wind River: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	Unknown	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ethete, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 4 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
August 2021	Hail	Ethete	-	A former NWS employee reported one inch diameter hail in Ethete.
August 2018	Hail	Ethete	-	An off duty NWS employee reported nickel size hail along Highway 137 on the Wind River Reservation.
June 2017	Hail	Ethete	-	There were numerous reports of hail across the Wind River Reservation from Ethete to near around Fort Washakie. The largest report was southeast of Arapahoe where hail of quarter size was reported.
June 2015	Hail	Ethete	-	The public posted a picture on Facebook of half dollar sized hail in Ethete.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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 85000421 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 31 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.