Sand Creek Tributary Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Rush County · listed in 2014 · 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. 2 mi. W, 1.4 mi. N. of La Crosse, La Crosse, 67548
When was it listed? April 2014
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. La Crosse-Brookdale township
National Register reference number. 14000120 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sand Creek Tributary Stone Arch Bridge between 2017 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Rush County	43059
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
3 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Rush County	40212
28 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	181928
19 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	121251
6 March 2017	Smoking	1.0 acres	Rush County	39226
18 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Rush County	38968
11 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Rush County	38839

Every fire recorded in Rush County

Storms near this property

46 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Crosse, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 29 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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
July 2005	Hail	La Crosse	$500,000	The hail broke out 20 windows at the Rush county courthouse. Two patrol cars had their windshields broken out. Windows were also broken out of the St. Michaels Catholic Church...along with numerous homes and businesses.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	$30,000	Twenty 26 power poles were blown down along highway 183 closing the highway between Rush Center and La Crosse.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	$30,000	no account filed
May 2008	Flood	La Crosse	$12,000	Water was out of the banks of Sand Creek and flooded some of the streets in the area.
May 1998	Hail	La Crosse	$2,000	Hail swath of 7 miles wide produced total devastation to some of the native grasses and destroyed most of the wheat. A USDA report indicated some hail up to softball size but gave no specific information.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	$1,000	Tree blown down.
May 2021	Hail	La Crosse	-	Most of the hail was dime sized and the hail covered the road.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 2012	Tornado (EF2)	La Crosse	-	This tornado may have been another satellite tornado based on spotter video and from the damage survey moved north through trees but yet was east of the larger wedge tornado.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	La Crosse	-	This tornado made brief contact (about 30 seconds).
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	La Crosse	-	This landspout was also witnessed by a pilot
July 1999	Flash Flood	La Crosse	-	Heavy rain flooded and closed the 9th street bridge.
July 1999	Flash Flood	La Crosse	-	Heavy rain flooded the 1st street bridge.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	Power lines and large tree branches down.
May 2023	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	La Crosse	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	La Crosse	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rush 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

3 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
Rush County Courthouse	2.9 miles	1972
Miller Farmstead	6.4 miles	2012
Lone Star School, District 64	7.3 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000120 in Record Group 79.
Rush County	All 6 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.