Stranger Creek Warren Truss Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Atchison County · listed in 2004 · 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. On Haskell Rd., 0.8 mi. S of the jct. with 262 Rd., 0.5 mi. S of town of Farmington, Farmington, 66023
When was it listed? October 2004
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
Township. Center township
National Register reference number. 04001139 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

16 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Stranger Creek Warren Truss Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 139 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
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	3
Other causes	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
15 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2015063
7 May 2018	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018060
6 March 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2016023
6 March 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015013
4 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Atchison County	2017025
31 March 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2015024
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Atchison County	2017029

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this property

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2024	Hail	Farmington	-	Quarter size hail was reported south of Farmington.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Farmington	-	Two barns were heavily damaged along 260th Road near Lancaster, Kansas.
March 2017	Hail	Farmington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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

1 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
	John Drimmel Sr. Farm	7.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001139 in Record Group 79.
Atchison County	All 51 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.