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Photograph of Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge
Photograph by MadameGraffigny, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge is a Pratt truss bridge constructed shortly after 1885, in Bois d'Arc, Kansas. It was constructed by the Kansas City Bridge and Iron Company as a carriage, horse and pedestrian bridge over the Little Hickory Creek, which joins the Walnut River in southern Butler County.”

Wikipedia article Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure · built in 1885.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. SW 160th Rd., 0.5 mi. W of int. with Purity Springs Rd., Bois D'Arc, 67039
  • When was it listed? May 2003
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
  • Township. Bloomington township
  • When was it built? 1885
  • National Register reference number. 03000377 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge between 2006 and 2019, burning about 749 acres in total. 1 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1999
28 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Service1757
13 July 2017Natural1.0 acresButler County84
25 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1457
24 June 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresButler County77
22 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1407
20 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1398
14 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1342

Every fire recorded in Butler 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Muddy Creek Bridge4.6 miles1985
C. N. James Cabin5.6 miles1973
US Post Office-Augusta6.2 miles1989
Viets Block6.3 miles2012
Augusta Theater6.4 miles1990
John Moyle Building6.4 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000377 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Butler CountyAll 26 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.