Old Katy Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Geary County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. Otter Creek Rd., 0.4 mi. S of int with Lyons Creek Rd., 0.5 mi. SE of Wreford, Wreford, 66441
When was it listed? May 2003
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
Township. Lyon township
National Register reference number. 03000370 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

67 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Old Katy Bridge between 2012 and 2020, burning about 9,063 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Other causes	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Geary County	1344
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Geary County	108
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8,000 acres	Kansas Counties	SKIDDY WEST ROAD
1 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	978
5 July 2018	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	114
5 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	892
5 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Geary County	1005
29 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	857

Every fire recorded in Geary County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wreford, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wreford	-	Wind gusts estimated.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Wreford	-	Wind gusts estimated.
April 1995	Hail	Wreford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Geary 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Brown, George T, House	4.8 miles	2006
Bartell House	4.8 miles	1980
First Presbyterian Church of Junction City	5.0 miles	2021
Old Junction City High School	5.1 miles	1981
Jackson-McConnell House	5.1 miles	2012
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Memorial Arch	5.1 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000370 in Record Group 79.
Geary 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.