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Photograph of Clements Stone Arch Bridge
Photograph by Brylie, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Clements Stone Arch Bridge

Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Clements Stone Arch Bridge is a historic bridge across the Cottonwood River .5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of Clements, Kansas. Santy and Company of Clements, who contracted with the Chase County commission to build it for $12,000.”

Wikipedia article Clements Stone Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Chase County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1886.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 0.5 mi. SE of Clements over the Cottonwood River, Clements, 66843
  • When was it listed? December 1976
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Cottonwood township
  • When was it built? 1886
  • National Register reference number. 76000816 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clements Stone Arch Bridge between 2014 and 2015, burning about 1,725 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresPottawatomie CountyOAK CANYON
22 March 2015Debris and open burning225 acresKansas Forest Service16

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clements Stone Arch Bridge: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Campbell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Chase County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clements, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2000: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000HailClements-no account filed
April 1999HailClements-no account filed
May 1996HailClements-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
William C. & Jane Shaft House1.4 miles2010
Clover Cliff Ranch House3.3 miles1977
McNee Barns4.3 miles2013
Cedar Point Mill5.1 miles2006
Cottonwood River Pratt Truss Bridge5.9 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000816 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chase CountyAll 21 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.