BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure · built in 1916.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Harris Bridge
Built in 1916. 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. 3 mi. N and 4 mi. W of Americus, Americus, 66846
- When was it listed? July 1985
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
- Township. Americus township
- When was it built? 1916
- National Register reference number. 85001434 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Harris Bridge between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,098 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 44 |
| 9 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lyon County | 34 |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 900 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 26 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 13 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 10 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
| 10 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 22 |
Storms near this property
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Americus, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Americus | $50,000 | Fast flowing water over county roads. One indirect injury due to hydroplaning on water covered road. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Americus | $30,000 | Reports of 4 to 5 inches of water covering County Rd. F in Americus. Pester Creek is flooding with water over Orange St. in Americus. Barricades placed at 7th and Orange St. |
| May 2006 | Lightning | Americus | $15,000 | A lightning strike destroyed a garage and a pickup truck inside the garage. A room converted from a garage was also damaged. The residents of the home were not injured as they fled their smoke filled house. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Americus | $500 | Intense rains brought fast flowing water over county roads around Americus. |
| March 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Americus | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Americus | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Americus | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001434 in Record Group 79. |
| Lyon County | All 21 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.