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One of 40 National Register listings published here for Leavenworth County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Begley Bridge
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. Two unnamed farm rds flanking Stranger Creek 1.1 mi. W of jct with 227th St. and Roe Rd., 1.75 mi. NW of Millwood, Millwood, 66002
- When was it listed? May 2003
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
- Township. Easton township
- National Register reference number. 03000373 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
30 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Begley Bridge between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,137 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 71 |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 54 |
| 29 June 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 48 |
| 6 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 39 |
| 10 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500041 |
| 10 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150042 |
| 6 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Atchison County | 170216 |
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 03000373 in Record Group 79. |
| Leavenworth County | All 40 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.