# Santa Fe stone arch bridge

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-stone-arch-bridge/

- Kind: Railroad stations, depots and structures
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0857, -104.8671 (mapped feature (OpenStreetMap))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Stone arch carrying the Santa Fe over Dirty Woman Creek; replaced by a concrete culvert, per the library's cataloger (PPLD records of survey B71). Probably the site of the Santa Fe bridge collapse of July 17, 1895 (inference; see that entry).

## Where it was

Where the Santa Fe track crossed Dirty Woman Creek south of Monument (PPLD records of survey photos B71): the crossing of the old Santa Fe grade (New Santa Fe Regional Trail) and Dirty Woman Creek in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05).

A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake.

## Nearby

- [Santa Fe bridge collapse (July 17, 1895)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-bridge-collapse-july-17-1895/): 0.0 mi northeast
- [Inez J. Lewis School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/inez-j-lewis-school/): 0.4 mi northwest
- [St. Peter Catholic Church (1911)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/st-peter-catholic-church-1911/): 0.4 mi northwest
- [Methodist parsonage (Father Dyer, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/methodist-parsonage-father-dyer-1874/): 0.5 mi northwest
- [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.5 mi northwest
- [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.5 mi northwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.