Verdigris River 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. 0.5 mi. N of Madison, Madison, 66860
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. structure
Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
Township. Madison township
National Register reference number. 85001444 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Verdigris River Bridge between 2015 and 2018, burning about 828 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	102
11 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Greenwood County	7
7 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Greenwood County	44
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Greenwood County	6
6 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	016-024
30 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	300 acres	Kansas Forest Service	66
30 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	65
30 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Kansas Forest Service	67

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this property

60 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison, the town this property stands in, in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 35 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 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
March 2012	Hail	Madison	$1,000,000	Hail stone diameters ranged from golfball size to just over three-inches in Madison. Widespread roof and car damage likely occurred. This was the first (and largest) round of large hail to hit Madison within a two-hour period. Property damage amounts are rough estimates.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$10,000	A large tree fell on a house in Madison, partially damaging one side of the home.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	The winds knocked down limbs and whole trees in Madison, where one tree fell on a house. Lesser winds of 60 mph passed over Eureka.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$3,000	Winds estimated between 45 and 55 mph partially downed a few power poles, and also produced some tree damage.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Madison	$100	Almost five inches of rainfall left a foot water on most streets in Madison and closed Highway 58 near Madison for a short time. Also, low water crossings across the county were closed due to the high water. Madison reported 4.97 inches of rainfall.
April 2026	Hail	Madison	-	The report was relayed via Eureka Fire Department.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Madison	-	State highway K-58 east of Madison was closed due to flooding. A vehicle was reported stalled in Madison due to high water. The occupants were rescued.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Wind measured by personal weather station.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Tree damage and minor damage to buildings was reported as a result of strong outflow winds.
June 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Madison	-	A brief tornado on the southern end of Madison. The tornado trekked \|southeast producing damage to a carport and trees. The most \|significant damage was to a camper carport on the far southeast\|side of town. The carport was broken into several pieces and \|was displaced in multiple directions.
March 2021	Hail	Madison	-	Winds of 50 mph were also reported.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Madison	-	This was a 24 hour rain total of 3.8 inches.
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Madison	-	This is a 24 hour rainfall report of 3.42 inches.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	The estimated 60 mph gusts downed limbs. A some small hail was also reported but the diameter wasn't specified.
May 2018	Hail	Madison	-	Via local media social media account. It was a delayed report.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Nickel-sized hail and some tree damage was reported.
May 2015	Flood	Madison	-	Water was reported flowing across Kansas Highway 58 about 1 mile east of Madison.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Small tree limbs were reported down in Madison.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	A roof was blown off of a barn.
May 2015	Flood	Madison	-	Reports of minor street flooding was noted at many low water crossings across the county.
May 2015	Flood	Madison	-	Radio station KVOE reported that K-99 was underwater at the Admire railroad underpass and K-58 is closed just east of Madison.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	An estimated 60 mph wind gust was noted.
May 2014	Hail	Madison	-	A trained spotter reported to law enforcement that a lot of pea sized hail fell as well a few as big as quarters.
June 2014	Hail	Madison	-	Pea to quarter sized hail was reported along with 1.90 inches of rainfall.
June 2014	Hail	Madison	-	Hail was pea to quarter sized.
March 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Madison	-	Very brief tornado touchdown in an open field.
March 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Madison	-	Brief tornado touchdown in open country. The tornado was fairly stationary and did not cause any damage.
March 2012	Hail	Madison	-	Hail stone diameters ranged from golfball to tennis ball size, with a few up to softball size.
March 2012	Flood	Madison	-	Very heavy rainfall of up to four inches over a three-hour period produced high water across Highway 58 about one mile east of Madison. Property or crop damage amounts, if any, are unknown.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	The report was relayed by KSN-TV.
April 2010	Hail	Madison	-	Hail was accompanied by 50 to 55 mph winds.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Quarter sized hail covered the ground.
April 2010	Hail	Madison	-	The hail was accompanied by 60 mph winds.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	A trained spotter reported the gust.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	3 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down by severe straight line winds.
May 2004	Hail	Madison	-	CO-OP observer.
May 2004	Hail	Madison	-	Occurred on north side of town.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Madison	-	Water was reported over highway 57.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Limbs blown down.
April 1999	Hail	Madison	-	Hail occurred at Godfrey Airport.
April 2026	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
August 2017	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
February 2011	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Madison	-	no account filed
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Madison Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Depot	0.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001444 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.
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.