CKW Bridge over Powder River

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The CKW Bridge over Powder River is a Pratt deck truss bridge near Arvada, Wyoming, which carries US 14/US 16 across the Powder River. The bridge was built from 1932 to 1933 by the W.”
Wikipedia article CKW Bridge over Powder River, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Sheridan 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. US 14/16, Arvada, 82831
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming TR
Census division. Sheridan
National Register reference number. 85000432 - 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of CKW Bridge over Powder River between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,113 acres in total. 2 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	8
Natural	2

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
14 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
18 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
18 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
16 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
9 July 2016	Natural	under an acre	Buffalo Field Office	ORDEGARD
5 July 2016	Natural	24 acres	Buffalo Field Office	WAISNER DRAW
10 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arvada, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Arvada	-	Some tree damage occurred.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Arvada	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Arvada	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Arvada	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Arvada	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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

1 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
	EAU Arvada Bridge	3.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000432 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan County	All 29 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.