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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Kit Carson County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Spring Creek Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. US 24 at milepost 430.32, Vona, 80861
- When was it listed? October 2002
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS
- Census division. Stratton
- National Register reference number. 02001143 - 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 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek Bridge between 2011 and 2016, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 | 3 |
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 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Stratton Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
| 29 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | VONA |
| 5 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | VONA |
Storms near this property
60 of 116 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vona, the town this property stands in, in 116 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 86 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Vona | $100,000 | Highway 24 was closed between Vona and Stratton due to water over the road. In some places the water was three feet deep. Vehicles have been washed off the road from the flood waters, and motorists have been rescued. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | $20,000 | Wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated. Two large semi trucks were reportedly blown over on Interstate 70 by the strong winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | $18,000 | This report was relayed via The Spotter Network. Shingles were blown off a roof, four-inch diameter tree branches were broken, a 30-foot tall spruce tree was toppled onto a house, and a grain bin was blown off its foundation and moved about one quarter of a mile. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Vona | $2,000 | Ping pong ball sized hail created numerous dents and shattered a windshield of a vehicle traveling on I-70. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Vona | $500 | The hail broke out the windshield on the chase vehicle. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Vona | $500 | The hail broke several windows in a home. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Vona | - | Spotter estimated accumulating hail that ranged from penny to mostly quarters and ping pong ball in size. Hail was still falling 8 minutes after it started. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Vona | - | Trained spotter reported hail ranging in size from pea to quarters in size. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | WeatherLink site Livingston Ag Seibert measured the 61 mph wind gust. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Vona | - | Trained spotter reported mostly nickel sized hail with a few quarter sized stones. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Vona | - | Accumulating pea to quarter sized hail in a corn field. Depth of the hail accumulation was unknown. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Vona | - | Estimated nickel sized hail fell in Vona. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | Mesonet kcovona2 reported a 59 MPH gust. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Vona | - | Dime to penny sized hail was observed. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Vona | - | Spotter reported quarter sized hail at location. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Vona | - | Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail. |
| July 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Vona | - | Garage building was shifted east 6 inches off the foundation. A communications tower just east of the garage was folded in half facing the east-northeast. Metal roof panels and pieces of siding were scattered east and west from the garage. A propane tank on the west side of the property was rolled to the south off its base. A playground set on the southwest corner of the house was ripped apart and scattered to the north. A trampoline was crumbled and blown to the northeast. Pieces of siding from the west facing side of the house were scattered across the property. The tornado then traveled west-southwest across Interstate 70 before dissipating. |
| July 2022 | Flood | Vona | - | Up to three to five inches of rainfall occurred in the area of Bethune and Stratton. This area also received a couple inches of rainfall a couple days earlier. Dispatch received three different reports of one to two feet of water over county roads in this area. In two of these reports the water extended for 10 to 20 feet over the road. No damage was reported. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Vona | - | Report received of hail up to quarter size at location. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Vona | - | Report received of hail from pea size up to penny size at location. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Vona | - | Hail of atleast golf ball in size falling in town. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Vona | - | Pea to penny sized hail fell on I-70 between mile markers 412-417 of I-70. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Vona | - | Small roping (landspout) tornado reported. Estimated near MM412 of I-70. Evaluation of radar imagery indicates that most likely boundary interaction was southeast of MM412 of I-70. |
| July 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Vona | - | Landspout tornado reported by chaser via spotter network. Exact location estimated via radar. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Vona | - | A weak tornado was seen southwest of Kirk. No damage was reported with this tornado. No end time was given for the tornado. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Vona | - | Estimated the time of the report from radar. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | Branches that were estimated to be two inches in diameter were blown down. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Vona | - | Law enforcement and trained spotters reported a large tornado over open fields about 9 miles north of Vona. No damage was reported. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Vona | - | About six inches of water was reported to be over Road JJ just east of Road 23. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Vona | - | Time of report estimated from Doppler radar. A few quarter to ping pong ball size hailstones were reported among numerous pea size hailstones. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Vona | - | Hail report received via The Spotter Network. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Vona | - | The hail report was relayed by law enforcement on Interstate 70. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Vona | - | In addition, accumulations of 1/2-inch diameter hail were so significant that the Colorado Department of Transportation was called out to plow Interstate 70 along a two mile stretch near Vona. The hail also prevented heavy rainfall from running off, resulting in standing water on portions of the Interstate in this area. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | Several small tree limbs one to one and a half inches in diameter were broken off trees. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Vona | - | Caller reported wind gusts estimated at 40 mph along with heavy rainfall in addition to the nickel sized hail. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | Six traffic accidents occurred on Interstate 70 in Kit Carson County, Colorado between Vona and Stratton from 5:45 pm MDT to 6:00 pm MDT. Accidents were caused by strong thunderstorm outflow and rapidly reduced visibility in outflow winds. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Vona | - | CoCoRaHS observer. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Vona | - | Broken windshield and mirrors on car. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Vona | - | Up to 6 windows broken from hail. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Vona | - | Brief tornado observed by law enforcement. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Vona | - | Three-quarters inch hail also reported in Vona at 1953 MST. |
| October 1994 | Hail | Vona | - | Tornado broke off power poles and tore tin roof of building. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Vona | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vona | - | no account filed |
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 02001143 in Record Group 79. |
| Kit Carson County | All 7 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.