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Photograph of Morton County WPA Bridge
Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Morton County WPA Bridge

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Morton County WPA Bridge, near Richfield, Kansas, United States, is a stone multi-arch bridge that was built from 1936 to 1939 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Morton County WPA Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Morton County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure · built in 1936.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 6 mi. W and 4 mi. N of Richfield, Richfield, 67953
  • When was it listed? October 1986
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Masonry Arch Bridges of Kansas TR
  • Township. Westola township
  • When was it built? 1936
  • National Register reference number. 86003356 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Morton County WPA Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 728 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined708 acresMorton CountyCOUNTY
6 October 1992Equipment and vehicle use20 acresPike and San Isabel National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this property

60 of 176 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richfield, the town this property stands in, in 176 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 125 hail, 37 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Thunderstorm WindRichfield$50,000Microburst destroyed a mobile home that was unoccupied at the time. An outbuilding had a tree limb impaled into it.
August 2025HailRichfield-A public report of 2.75 inch hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Storm chaser estimated 60-70 mph wind gusts.
April 2022HailRichfield-Most of the hail was nickel sized.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Measured at the site in Richfield.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2018Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall of 4.08 inches was measured.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 to 65 MPH.
March 2017HailRichfield-Most of the stones were soft and splattered upon impact.
August 2017Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall was 4.0 inches.
July 2017Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall was 2.75 inches.
July 2017Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall was 1.80 inches.
July 2017Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall was 2.95 inches.
April 2016FloodRichfield-Widespread flooding was reported across much of the county. Many county roads, including highway 51, were covered by flood water.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Tree limbs of 4 to 5 inches in diameter were blown down by the high wind.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2013FloodRichfield-Water was observed over highway 27.
August 2013HailRichfield-The hail fell for 10 minutes.
August 2013Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall of 1.50 inches was reported.
July 2012Heavy RainRichfield-Rainfall of 2.90 was observed.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A large but dead tree was blown over.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindRichfield-There was damage done to a tin roof and sides of a barn and also the roof on the house was damaged.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Winds were estimated to be 75 mph.
July 2010HailRichfield-There was also wind strong enough to break a few branches.
June 2009Funnel CloudRichfield-Inflow into the storm was over 60 mph from the east.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A satellite dish got blown off of a roof.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Richfield-This tornado had nothing to hit.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
August 2004Heavy RainRichfield-2.80 inches of rain fell overnight
August 2004Heavy RainRichfield-3.50 inches of rain fell overnight
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Several large tree limbs were broken by the high wind...the largest being 11 inches in diameter.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Richfield-This tornado did not hit anything to damage but by all accounts was truely a weak tornado.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Three inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Two inch limbs blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Three inch diameter limbs blown down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Three inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
July 1998HailRichfield-Crops shredded in a path 4 miles long and 1 mile wide.
May 2024HailRichfield-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed
April 2024HailRichfield-no account filed
April 2024HailRichfield-no account filed
July 2023HailRichfield-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed
April 2022HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2022HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2022HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2022HailRichfield-no account filed
May 2020HailRichfield-no account filed
May 2020HailRichfield-no account filed
May 2020HailRichfield-no account filed
August 2020HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2019HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2019HailRichfield-no account filed
June 2018HailRichfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 86003356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morton CountyAll 7 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.