Cedar Creek Bridge

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Cedar Creek Bridge near Elgin, Kansas, on FAS 96, was built in 1927. Also known as Elgin Cedar Creek Bridge, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”
Wikipedia article Cedar Creek Bridge (Elgin, Kansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1983 · category: Site · built in 1927, by James Barney Marsh.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. FAS 96, Elgin, 67361
When was it listed? March 1983
Category. site
Also known as. Rainbow Arch Marsh Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Hendricks township
When was it built? 1927
Architect. James Barney Marsh
National Register reference number. 83000418 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,834 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	4
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
2 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1816
7 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1812
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Osage Agency	ARBYMAN
17 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1811
3 March 2016	Debris and open burning	1,660 acres	Osage Agency	PIGGY
18 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Chautauqua County	1712
17 March 2018	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1806
28 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chautauqua County	1707

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this property

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elgin, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
October 2018	Flood	Elgin	$100	The COOP observer in Elgin reported minor flooding around Elgin.
May 2024	Tornado (EFU)	Elgin	-	A report relayed via the media of a tornado near the state line and south of Hewins. No damage was reported in that area.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	Significant straight line winds moved along the Kansas and Oklahoma border causing widespread tree damage along the path. The hardest hit was the community of Elgin.
April 2014	Hail	Elgin	-	The hail was reported via twitter.
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Elgin	-	Tornado briefly touched down in open field.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	The winds were estimated between 50 and 60 mph.
April 2014	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Elgin	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Elgin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83000418 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chautauqua 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.