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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Ellis County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Fletcher Stone Arch Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4.8 mi. S of Walker, Walker Ave., Walker, 67671
- When was it listed? May 2001
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
- Township. Herzog township
- National Register reference number. 01000385 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fort Fletcher Stone Arch Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Ellis County | 017-272 |
| 4 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Russell County | 26 |
| 19 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Russell County | 25 |
| 11 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0091 |
| 9 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 51918 |
| 5 April 2018 | Smoking | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 7 |
Storms near this property
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walker, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Hail | Walker | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | $5,000 | Power lines blown down...few trees uprooted. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Mesonet Station UP853 Walker. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Mesonet site at Walker on I-70. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | Rainfall of 2.31 inches was observed. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | Rainfall of 2.45 inches fell during this period. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | Rainfall of 4.40 fell. |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | The observer received 4 inches of rain from 600 PM until 730 PM. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Walker | - | This small tornado was in contact with the ground for just a short preiod. Nothing was hit. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Walker | - | Water was three feet over the road. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Walker | - | Siding damaged and windows broken. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Walker | - | Wind of 70 to 80 mph with the hail. A grain bin was destroyed by the winds while numerous cars and homes were damaged by the hail. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Walker | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brungardt-Dreiling Farmstead | 5.3 miles | 2016 | |
 | St. Fidelis Catholic Church | 5.6 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000385 in Record Group 79. |
| Ellis County | All 21 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.