Delaware River Parker Truss Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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. Bridge St., 0.3 mi. W of int. with Main St., Perry, 66073
When was it listed? May 2003
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
Township. Kentucky township
National Register reference number. 03000372 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Delaware River Parker Truss Bridge between 2005 and 2018, burning about 485 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	56
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
14 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	132
5 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	184
4 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2018125
22 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	157
22 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	77
9 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	124
11 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	125
9 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Jefferson County	63

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delaware River Parker Truss Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hamm Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

60 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perry, the town this property stands in, in 78 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 thunderstorm wind, 34 hail, 6 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	2 hurt, $700,000	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Perry	$1,000,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Perry	$100,000	no account filed
July 2004	Flash Flood	Perry	$40,000	Heavy rains produced flash flooding in southern Jefferson county. At Perry water was running over the street curbs. Many roads near Perry were covered by water. Near Williamstown the junction of highways 24 and 59 was barracaded due to rising water.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$10,000	2 boat houses had roofs blown off at Perry Lake Marina.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$10,000	Strong winds damaged a marina at Lake Perry.
June 2004	Hail	Perry	$5,000	Large hail damaged vehicles and crops near Perry.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$5,000	High winds knocked down power lines.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$3,000	Strong winds downed power lines.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	Power lines were downed in Perry as a result of broken tree limbs.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	$1,000	Strong winds blew down power lines east of Perry.
May 2005	Flash Flood	Perry	$500	Fast flowing water over highway24.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Relayed report by Emergency Manager.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Time estimated from radar. 5 inch diameter tree branch down.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Large tree uprooted. Time estimated by radar.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Highway signs snapped at the posts, estimated 60 to 70 mph wind gusts reported by the fire chief.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Significant damage to trees, homes and vehicles. Many power lines down in Perry.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Multiple trees snapped in perry, one as large as 36 inches in diameter.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Fire chief estimated a 70 mph wind gust.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Perry	-	Emergency manager reported 10 inches of water over many roads in Perry.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Mping report of trees uprooted or snapped, or roof blown off.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	The fire chief reported 60 mph winds and zero visibility.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Multiple power poles down, tree damage across the city of Perry.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Tree limbs and powerlines down.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Perry	-	Most roads are under water in Perry from flash flooding rains.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Perry	-	Flash flooding on 25th road west of us 59 highway closed due to flood waters.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Seventeen inch diameter tree snapped in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Home with minor damage due to falling tree and debris from limbs.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Power lines down in Perry.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Wind gust to around 60 mph reported.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Power line was reported down.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Estimated 60-70 mph wind gust.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	A 12 inch limb was snapped off of a healthy tree.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	An emergency manager reported an estimated 60 mph wind gust near Perry.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	A 4 inch tree limb was broken from strong winds.
April 2009	Flash Flood	Perry	-	One foot of water reported to be running over portions of Cedar Street in the town of Perry.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Pea size hail also reported.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	Half inch hail covered the ground.
June 2002	Funnel Cloud	Perry	-	A funnel cloud was sighted near Lake Perry dam.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	High winds caused damage to trees, limbs, and power lines.
May 2013	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	no account filed
November 2005	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Perry	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Perry	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Buck Creek School	5.8 miles	1988
	Morris Harris Farmstead	6.5 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000372 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 10 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.