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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Geary County · listed in 2020 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lyon Creek Rainbow Arch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 100 ft. southwest from the jct. of Lyon Creek Rd. & Hwy. K-157 Spur, Wreford, 66441
- When was it listed? December 2020
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Rainbow Arch Marsh Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
- Township. Lyon township
- National Register reference number. 100005949 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
18 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Lyon Creek Rainbow Arch between 2010 and 2018, burning about 8,743 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,000 acres | Kansas Counties | SKIDDY WEST ROAD |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 84 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 53 |
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
| 23 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 65 |
| 23 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 66 |
| 16 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 62 |
| 10 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 58 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lyon Creek Rainbow Arch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbine Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wreford, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wreford | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wreford | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Wreford | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Old Katy Bridge | 5.9 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005949 in Record Group 79. |
| Geary County | All 15 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.