Muddy Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Butler County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. Off US 77, Douglass, 67039
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Douglass township
National Register reference number. 85001425 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

35 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Muddy Creek Bridge between 2006 and 2019, burning about 474 acres in total. 1 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 burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
25 July 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Butler County	92
13 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Butler County	84
24 June 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Butler County	77
9 May 2018	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kansas Forest Service	85
29 May 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Butler County	1446
16 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	94
4 April 2018	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Kansas Forest Service	744
24 April 2018	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	914

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this property

60 of 113 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglass, the town this property stands in, in 113 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 55 hail, 45 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 3 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
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$75,000	The emergency manager reported two mobile homes just northeast of town were destroyed.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Douglass	$55,000	Local broadcast media reported that a mobile home park was being evacuated due to high water in the town of Douglass.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$50,000	A large barn was destroyed by the damaging winds.
April 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Douglass	$30,000	A tornado was on the ground for 5 minutes and produced several power flashes. One home and some outbuildings sustained damage.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$20,000	Wind damage occurred to a barn, an outbuilding and to the main house.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$20,000	Wind gusts estimated at 100 mph blew down numerous trees and removed roofs to several sheds.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$15,000	Butler County Emergency Management relayed a report of a destroyed barn. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$10,000	There were reports of downed power lines along Highway 77 on the north side of Douglass.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$10,000	Two to four inch diameter trees were reported down.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$5,000	Damage occurred to numerous structures.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$5,000	Damage occurred to a barn.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$5,000	A large tree was broken at the base. The tree diameter was 17 inches, but the tree was dying due to the hollowed out portion of the trunk.
April 1994	Hail	Douglass	$5,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$5,000	no account filed
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$2,500	The emergency manager confirmed that several limbs were downed. Amateur radio also reported that a few light poles were downed.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$2,000	The winds uprooted a 60 foot tall, 2 foot diameter tree.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$1,000	Tree with 1.5 inch diameter trunk uprooted and fell onto elementary school. Damage to school unspecified.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	$500	The winds knocked down ten inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2010	Flood	Douglass	$100	Low lying areas around town were flooded.
November 2025	Hail	Douglass	-	A spotter reported lots of dime to quarter-sized hail resulting in about one to two inches of hail accumulation.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Tree branches up to 10 inches in diameter were reported down. A car port was flipped, and a power line was down.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Trained spotter for the county in the Douglass area reported an estimated 60 mph gust as the storm moved through.
April 2024	Hail	Douglass	-	Quarter sized hail and 50 mph winds reported.
April 2023	Hail	Douglass	-	This was a spotter report relayed by emergency management.
June 2023	Heavy Rain	Douglass	-	Twenty four hour total of a Cocorahs observer of 1.33 inches.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Relayed via the Emergency Manager.
May 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Douglass	-	Significant tree damage was noted across the community. The only structure that took any damage was one building that had half of it's roof peeled off.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	No damage was reported.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Limbs were blown down. Torrential rains also occurred.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	No damage was reported.
June 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Douglass	-	Delayed report of a tornado touchdown north of town and west of Highway 77.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	A trained spotter estimated the gust.
October 2013	Flood	Douglass	-	Street flooding occurred in Douglass.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	No damage reported.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Estimated gust reported by a trained spotter along with one half inch sized hail.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	A fence was blown down and some vinyl trim was blown off of a house.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	The public reported the strong winds.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Penny sized hail also occurred with the high winds.
July 2006	Hail	Douglass	-	In addition to the hail, 55 mph winds were reported.
May 2005	Hail	Douglass	-	Occurred on North side of town.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Douglass	-	South Elm under water. Flash flooding threatening trailer park.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Douglass	-	Many streets flooded on south side of town with two vehicles submerged. In addition, six trailer homes surrrounded by flash flooding.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Douglass	-	Eight Mile Creek overflowed one mile north of the Butler/Cowley county line.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Douglass	-	Most roads in and around town flooded.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Douglass	-	Some roads flooded 3-5 inches deep.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Douglass	-	Indianola/210th St. intersection flooded 1 foot deep.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Large limbs blown down.
September 2000	Hail	Douglass	-	Occurred on Butler/Cowley county line.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	SHINGLES BLOWN OFF ROOFS, & 6 INCH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	Greater than 60 mph winds were reported by the fire department in Andover. Several four inch diameter trees were uprooted in Douglass.
April 2026	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglass	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Douglass	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Douglass Township Community Building	3.7 miles	1995
Creed-Mills House	3.7 miles	2013
Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge	4.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001425 in Record Group 79.
Butler County	All 26 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.