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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Miami County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Jake's Branch of Middle Creek Bridge
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. Off US 69, Louisburg, 66071
- When was it listed? July 1985
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
- Township. Middle Creek township
- National Register reference number. 85001432 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
35 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Jake's Branch of Middle Creek Bridge between 2015 and 2018, burning about 221 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Miami County | 241 |
| 14 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 158 |
| 13 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 200 |
| 30 June 2018 | Fireworks | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150 |
| 7 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Miami County | 126 |
| 29 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 113 |
| 21 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 85 |
| 31 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 64 |
Storms near this property
47 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisburg, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 24 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Hail | Louisburg | $750,000 | Severe thunderstorms dropped dime-size hail and knocked down large tree limbs in the Hillsdale area. The storm continued east to Louisburg where it dropped hail up to golf ball size. The hail punched fist-sized holes in vinyl siding and smashed windows on a few homes. Just north of town, the hail covered the ground several inches deep. A car dealership had damage to nearly every car on the lot, and five sheriff's department vehicles were damaged. Winds knocked down tree limbs and power lines, and nearly 1200 customers were without power. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Louisburg | $5,000 | At 0945CST a brief EF0 tornado touchdown was observed about a half mile west southwest of Louisburg. The tornado lifted at 0947CST. A truck was overturned and heavily damaged. Minor building damage also observed. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | $5,000 | A tree was blown down onto a car. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | $2,000 | Winds up to 65 mph occurred at Louisburg, and tree limbs were downed. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Louisburg | - | Quarter sized hail reported west of Louisburg. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Estimated 65 mph wind gusts in Louisburg. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Law enforcement reported straight-line wind damage east of US-69 on 311th Street. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | A resident near Louisburg, Kansas recorded a 70 mph wind gust from a Davis weather station. There were also some tree branches down in the area. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Numerous trees were down from Louisberg, east - northeast to the Missouri and Kansas state line. The exact number of trees damaged and/or destroyed is unknown. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | A tree of approximately 6 inches was down over the a road. This report was received via social media. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | An 18 inch tree blew down along with lots of limbs. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Thunderstorm winds downed power lines near 311th street and Highway 69. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Several telephone poles were snapped near their base along Metcalf Road between 303rd and 327th streets. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Trees and power lines were blown down in this area. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | The power went out and 5 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph, with tree damage reported. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Four to five inch tree limbs were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Louisburg | - | Numerous roads flooded in the eastern and central parts of the county. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Power lines and trees down. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Louisburg | - | Public reported hail one inch in diameter in a severe thunderstorm at 233rd St and Metcalf which is 4 miles north of Louisburg. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | Strong winds from the same severe thunderstorm that dropped the large hail near Paola produced damaging winds in the Louisburg area. Winds gusted to 70 MPH in downtown Louisburg and were also reported by a spotter at the intersection of Highways 169 and 58. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| March 2018 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flood | Louisburg | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Louisburg | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | New Lancaster General Store | 4.0 miles | 2013 |
| New Lancaster Grange Hall, No. 223 | 4.1 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001432 in Record Group 79. |
| Miami County | All 19 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.