North Branch Otter Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Greenwood 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. 1 mi. W and 5 mi. N of Piedmont, Piedmont, 67122
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Otter Creek township
National Register reference number. 85001426 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of North Branch Otter Creek Bridge between 2002 and 2018, burning about 4,106 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	10
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
15 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Greenwood County	96
16 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	91
31 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,000 acres	Greenwood County	not named
30 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	68
30 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	72
30 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	71
28 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	64
23 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Kansas Forest Service	57

Every fire recorded in Greenwood 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 North Branch Otter Creek 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Piedmont Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piedmont, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Piedmont	$20,000	Semi blown off highway.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	$8,000	The roof of a barn was blown off, and trees of undetermined size were damaged.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	There were several trees uprooted near Piedmont along US 400.
May 2020	Hail	Piedmont	-	The hail ranged from dime to quarter size.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	A trained spotter reported the gust.
May 2014	Hail	Piedmont	-	The ground was covered with quarter sized hail.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	Law enforcement reported the gust.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	An amateur radio volunteer reported the gust.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	Large limbs downed.
May 2019	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Piedmont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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 85001426 in Record Group 79.
Greenwood County	All 12 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.