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Photograph of Mine Creek Bridge
Photograph by g.Todd Comer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mine Creek Bridge

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

From the record

“The Mine Creek Bridge, located east of Mound City in Linn County, Kansas, was built in 1927. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Mine Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Linn 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Mound City, Mound City, 66075
  • When was it listed? March 1983
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Rainbow Arch Marsh Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
  • Township. Potosi township
  • When was it built? 1927
  • Architect. James Barney Marsh
  • National Register reference number. 83000430 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Mine Creek Bridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,786 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 were 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service621
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service579
4 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service70418
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service573
28 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeBALER
21 June 2017Debris and open burning52 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLONE 20 EAST
19 June 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeMINE CREEK CAMPFIRE
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service131

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mound City, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMound City$50,000Trees and power lines were downed by severe thunderstorm winds.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindMound City$50,000A downburst produced an estimated 70-knot wind that destroyed a garage and barn, along with stripping a number of limbs off of trees.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMound City$5,000Barns were damaged by high winds at Mound City and trees uprooted near Blue Mound.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMound City$1,000Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph at Mound City. Many limbs and countless limbs were downed in La Cygne.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMound City$100Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. The winds blew a roof off of a small outbuilding across a street. Small tree limbs were also broken.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMound City$100Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. The wind blew a roof off a small outbuilding and across a street. Small tree limbs were also broken.
June 2025HailMound City-Hail up to ping pong ball size reported at Mound City Lake.
May 2024HailMound City-Golf ball sized hail was reported in Mound City.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMound City-Measured wind gust of 68 mph in Mound City from a personal weather station.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindMound City-Shingles were blown off of a roof near Mound City. There were multiple power outages across the county as a result of the strong winds.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMound City-Several power lines were down in Mound City.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMound City-A tree was blown over just north of Mound City on Highway 7. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2011Flash FloodMound City-Flash flooding was reported in Linn County, 5 miles northwest of Mound City.
June 1998HailMound City-Golfball-size hail was reported during a severe thunderstorm 8 miles north of Mound City and 4 miles east of Centerville.
June 1998Flash FloodMound City-Thunderstorms produced 2 to 6 inch rains over Linn County which resulted in areas of flash flooding. A half a foot of water covered Highway 31 a mile west of Mound City. Linn County Emergency Management officials reported 1 to 2 feet of water on several gravel roads in the Mound City area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMound City-The Linn County Sheriff Office reported trees blown down from thunderstorm winds in Mound City and Pleasanton.
June 1997Flash FloodMound City-The Linn County Sheriff's office reported several county gravel roads flooded in Southern Linn County about 5 miles south of Mound City.
May 2011HailMound City-no account filed
April 2011HailMound City-no account filed
February 2011HailMound City-no account filed
April 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
June 2008HailMound City-no account filed
April 2007HailMound City-no account filed
March 2006HailMound City-no account filed
April 2003HailMound City-no account filed
July 2003HailMound City-no account filed
April 2001HailMound City-no account filed
May 1996HailMound City-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMound City-no account filed
June 1996HailMound City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Battle of Mine Creek Site1.7 miles1973
Prescott School5.3 miles1982
Prescott Rural High School5.3 miles2008
Linn County Courthouse6.3 miles1974
Old Linn County Jail6.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000430 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn CountyAll 9 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.