Ness County Bridge FS-450

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Ness County · listed in 2017 · 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. Cty. Rd. 20, Bazine, 67516
When was it listed? March 2017
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Highpoint township
National Register reference number. 100000803 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ness County Bridge FS-450 in 2018, burning under an acre 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
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
14 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1

Every fire recorded in Ness County

Storms near this property

60 of 110 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bazine, the town this property stands in, in 110 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 79 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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 1995	Hail	Bazine	$25,000	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Bazine	$15,000	There was significant damage done to the house siding. Dents were made in the steel siding.
June 1995	Hail	Bazine	$10,000	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Bazine	$5,000	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	$2,000	Power poles and lines knocked down.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	A public report estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. A mesonet site recorded a 56 mph gust shortly before the public report at the KKSNESSC2 observing station.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Public reported 60 mph wind estimate.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	A large tree was blown down by the high wind.
April 2016	Flood	Bazine	-	Multiple roads were flooded in the Bazine area.
October 2016	Hail	Bazine	-	A few quarter sized stones were observed.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Tree limbs up to six inches in diameter were blown down by the high wind.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Winds were at least 70 MPH.
June 2014	Hail	Bazine	-	There was also high wind with the hail.
March 2013	Hail	Bazine	-	The hail ranged from nickel to quarter sized. There was only 0.16 of precipitation in the gauge after the event.
March 2013	Hail	Bazine	-	Melting hailstones the size of nickels were still on the ground the next morning.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2011	Hail	Bazine	-	The hail broke holes in the fiberglass roof panels on a shed.
May 2011	Hail	Bazine	-	The ground was white with the stones varying from pea to quarter size.
August 2009	Hail	Bazine	-	The hail was accompanied by 70 mph winds.
August 2009	Hail	Bazine	-	The hail was accompanied by 60 mph winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	There was also dime to nickel sized hail.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	There was also quarter sized hail.
June 2008	Hail	Bazine	-	The large hail was mostly comprised of flat disks.
August 2008	Heavy Rain	Bazine	-	Rainfall of 4.95 was measured.
October 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Milo was blown over in the fields.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Bazine	-	5.10 inches of rain fell overnight.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Bazine	-	5.00 inches of rain fell overnight. Creeks were running full.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Bazine	-	Three inches of rain fell in a short period.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	A large tree was blown over.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Bazine	-	4.52 inches of rain fell overnight.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Bazine	-	4.50 inches of rain fell overnight. Some county roads had water flowing over them.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Bazine	-	Many roads in the northeast corner of the county had two to three feet of water flowing over them.
June 2002	Hail	Bazine	-	Windows were broken out by the hail.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Bazine	-	Water over county roads.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Three inch branches down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Four to six inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bazine	-	Recorded by wind equipment.
May 2023	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
August 2020	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
April 2019	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
October 2017	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
October 2017	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Bazine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ness 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
	Pawnee River Tributary Bridge	3.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000803 in Record Group 79.
Ness County	All 7 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.