Hitschmann Cattle Underpass Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Barton County · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE. 110 Ave. S. & NE. 190 Rd., Hitschmann, 67525
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Cleveland township
National Register reference number. 08000298 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hitschmann Cattle Underpass Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 57 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	15024
23 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
5 March 2016	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16008
28 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	15010
5 November 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	16037
17 January 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	15001
13 January 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16004

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this property

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitschmann, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 5 tornado, 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2008	Tornado (EF1)	Hitschmann	$65,000	A seven mile long track tornado caused minor damage to three homesteads in the northeast section of the county. Damage was mainly to trees and powerlines, but a metal building and a metal silo and feed bin received damage as well.
September 2014	Lightning	Hitschmann	$5,000	Hay bales were struck by lightning and started a fire.
July 2023	Hail	Hitschmann	-	Spotter reported mostly pea to dime sized hail. A couple of hail stones were up to quarter-sized.
May 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Hitschmann	-	Very brief touchdown in open country with no damage reported.
May 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Hitschmann	-	Brief touchdown of less than one minute in an open field. No damage was reported.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hitschmann	-	Dime sized hail was also reported.
May 2020	Heavy Rain	Hitschmann	-	Event total of 3 inches in the last 24 hour period.
August 2019	Tornado (EFU)	Hitschmann	-	This was a brief tornado that occurred in open country. No damage was reported.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hitschmann	-	Occurred along with pea-sized hail.
May 2002	Tornado (F0)	Hitschmann	-	Occurred right on the Russell/Barton County line.
April 2026	Hail	Hitschmann	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Hitschmann	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Hitschmann	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Hitschmann Double Arch Bridge	0.5 miles
Bridge No. 222-Off System Bridge	5.1 miles	2008
Bridge No. 640 Federal Aid Highway System Bridge	5.4 miles	2008
Bridge No. 650-Federal Aid Highway System Bridge	5.8 miles	2008
Bridge #218-Off System Bridge	5.9 miles	2008
Beaver Creek Native Stone Bridge	7.1 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000298 in Record Group 79.
Barton County	All 22 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.