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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure · built in 1930.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Bullfoot Creek Bridge
Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4 mi. S and .9 mi. E of Vesper, Vesper, 67455
- When was it listed? July 1985
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
- Township. Indiana township
- When was it built? 1930
- National Register reference number. 85001421 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vesper, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesper | $10,000 | Roof and tree damage was reported. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Vesper | $100 | Many county roads were flooded across the eastern half of the county. Measured rainfall in Lincoln was 4.80 inches and 4.25 inches in Barnard. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Vesper | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesper | - | This was an official measurement. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesper | - | Estimated gust reported by the Emergency Manager. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Vesper | - | A trained spotter reported mostly dime to quarter sized hail. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Vesper | - | Sixty mph winds were also reported with the hail. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Vesper | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vesper | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Spring Creek Tributary Bridge | 4.6 miles | 1985 |
 | Evangelical Lutheran School | 7.4 miles | 2015 |
| Lincoln High School | 7.4 miles | 2020 | |
| Behrhorst Brothers Hardware | 7.6 miles | 2022 | |
| Lincoln Downtown Historic District | 7.7 miles | 2020 | |
 | Cummins Block Building | 7.7 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001421 in Record Group 79. |
| Lincoln County | All 15 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.
- 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.