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One of 13 National Register listings published here for Mitchell County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Brown's Creek Tributary Masonry Arch Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2300 mi. on Cty. Rd. B, Glen Elder, 67446
- When was it listed? July 2014
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
- Township. Solomon Rapids township
- National Register reference number. 14000438 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Brown's Creek Tributary Masonry Arch Bridge between 2015 and 2016, burning about 3 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 150033 |
| 13 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 23 |
Storms near this property
40 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Elder, the town this property stands in, in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 19 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF2) | Glen Elder | $500,000 | This tornado started near Glen Elder Dam in Mitchell County and moved northeast. It crossed into Jewell County about 4 miles west of Highway 14. Eye witness accounts stated that this tornado combined near the dam with a tornado that had formed to the southwest in Osborne County. Just to the east of the dam, the tornado damaged several outbuildings at a farmstead and uprooted many trees. Power lines and trees were snapped off when the twister crossed US Highway 24 to the east of the town of Glen Elder. Large power poles were broken and another farmstead sustained extensive damage just before the tornado moved into Jewell County. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Glen Elder | $125,000 | Widespread rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches were reported across the area, with the primary impact being numerous rural roads being covered in water and closed. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $75,000 | Wind gusts out ahead of and with this thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated near 70 mph. These wind gusts resulted in roof damage at a lumber yard in Glen Elder and a tree 18 inches in diameter being uprooted 4 miles south of town. Dime to nickel size hail was also reported, with some piles of hail being 6 inches deep. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Glen Elder | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | Hail ranged from half dollar to hen egg in size. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | Golf ball size hail occurred along with estimated 45 mph wind gusts at Glen Elder State Park. Nickel size hail was reported in the town of Glen Elder two minutes earlier at 4:15 p.m. CDT. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $10,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH knocked down tree limbs of 3 to 5 inches in diameter. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $5,000 | A tree limb up to 10 inches in diameter knocked down a HAM radio antenna. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | $2,000 | Power lines were knocked down by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet state located near Glen Elder. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | A mesonet site indicated a peak wind gust of 63 mph at 545 pm CDT. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Glen Elder | - | This is an unofficial public report relayed by KWCH-TV of a one hour rainfall total of 3.12 inches. Heavy rain occurred before and after this hour, however. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Glen Elder | - | Rainfall measured from the previous 12 hours at the automated gauge along the Solomon River was 4.63 inches. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | Nickel size hail was reported at the intersection of Highways 24 and 128 near Waconda Lake. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | A farmer reported penny size hail as he was working in his metal shed. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Glen Elder | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flood | Glen Elder | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | E. W. Norris Service Station | 5.1 miles | 1976 |
 | Cather Farm | 7.0 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000438 in Record Group 79. |
| Mitchell County | All 13 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.