Maxwell's Slough Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Neosho 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 KS 57 .5 mi. W and 1 mi. S of St. Paul, St. Paul, 66771
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Mission township
National Register reference number. 85001429 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Maxwell's Slough Bridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 380 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
22 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Neosho County	not named
6 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2018046
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018045
10 June 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Neosho County	17058
9 March 2018	Smoking	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	180309
7 March 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	15006
21 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Neosho County	17028
18 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2018022

Every fire recorded in Neosho 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 Maxwell's Slough Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Hy-Grade Sand & Gravel Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Neosho 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

4 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
Osage Mission Infirmary	1.0 miles	2005
First Christian Church	5.6 miles	2021
State Steet Bridge	5.7 miles	1985
Oak Grove School, District 20	7.4 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001429 in Record Group 79.
Neosho County	All 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.
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.