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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure · built in 1903.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Salt Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge
Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. B Rd., 0.6 mi. E of int with 24th Rd., 1.0 mi. N of Barnard, Barnard, 67418
- When was it listed? May 2003
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
- Township. Scott township
- When was it built? 1903
- National Register reference number. 03000368 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Salt Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge between 2010 and 2018, burning about 2,642 acres 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 52018 |
| 25 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | Kansas Counties | STEVE DILLON |
| 17 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Lincoln County | 62017 |
| 30 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 640 acres | Kansas Counties | BARNARD |
Storms near this property
36 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnard, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | $2,000 | Two large trees blown down three miles west of Barnard. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | $500 | Tree limbs were downed. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Barnard | - | Flooding continues in some locations across northern Lincoln County, particularly around the Barnard area. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Trained spotter estimated winds of 65 to 70 mph and a large tree limb was knocked down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | The cooperative observer estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | A trained spotter reported the gust. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Severe outflow winds reported. Cooperative observer reported several branches and tree limbs down around town. Some of the limbs were as large as eight inches in diameter. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Barnard | - | The spotter reported a copious amount of 1-inch hail that rapidly covered his yard. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Barnard | - | The hail ranged in size from pea to penny size. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Limbs from 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter downed. Power outages resulted. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Barnard | - | Heavy rains across the county caused minor issues on the county roads. No major flooding issues were noted. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Barnard | - | The tornado touched down briefly in open country. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Barnard | - | The quarter size hail was covering the ground in Barnard. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | A power pole was blown down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Estimated by a trained spotter. |
| September 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Barnard | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Four to five inch branches downed. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Barnard | - | 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 03000368 in Record Group 79. |
| Lincoln County | All 15 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.