ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge is a Warren pony truss bridge located near Morton, Wyoming, USA, which carries Fremont County Road CN10-24 across the Wind River. The bridge's structure is integrated with the Wind River Diversion Dam.”
Wikipedia article ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge, 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. Cty. Rd. CN10-24, Morton, 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. 85000422 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of ELY Wind River Diversion Dam Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 August 2011	Fireworks	19 acres	Wind River Agency	WINKLEMAN
1 August 2000	Natural	60 acres	Wind River Agency	BLONDY 1
9 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wind River Agency	BULL LAKE
8 July 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wind River Agency	SAGE CREEK
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Fremont County	BULL LAKE WEST SIDE
27 July 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Wind River Agency	TRANSPLANT
26 July 2014	Natural	1.0 acres	Wind River Agency	BULL LAKE
24 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wind River Agency	WINKLEMAN DOME

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morton, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Morton	$20,000	Measured wind gusts of 57 to 61 mph lifted a 16x40 foot metal structure which was staked to the ground and tossed it 60 to 70 feet downwind.
June 2017	Flood	Morton	-	Snow melt from the mountains produced flooding in the low lying areas near Kinnear. The flooding remained over low lying areas and agricultural land along the Wind River and produced little or no damage.
June 2017	Flood	Morton	-	Flood water from the Wind River and flowed across US 26 just to the west of Morton. The water covered the road to a depth of over a foot at times. This resulted in two different closures of the road, the longest of which lasted almost four days, stretching from afternoon of June 7th until around noon on June 11th.
June 2025	Hail	Morton	-	no account filed

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 85000422 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.
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.