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Photograph of Pott's Ford Bridge
Photograph by Kolbretman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pott's Ford Bridge

Built in 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Pott's Ford Bridge is a bridge 1/2 mile south of Glasco, Kansas, USA that spans the Solomon River in Cloud County, Kansas. It has a wooden deck with three bowstring pony trusses and one Pratt pony truss.”

Wikipedia article Pott's Ford Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Cloud County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1884, by Wrought Iron Bridge Company.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Over Solomon River, SE of Glasco, Glasco, 67445
  • When was it listed? January 1990
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
  • Township. Solomon township
  • When was it built? 1884
  • Architect. Wrought Iron Bridge Company
  • National Register reference number. 89002173 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pott's Ford Bridge between 2015 and 2017, burning about 22 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
11 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service110
9 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service22
27 January 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOttawa County201701

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this property

60 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasco, the town this property stands in, in 88 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 50 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco$28,000strong winds destroyed several outbuildings and a shed at a farmstead. A shed and pickup camper in it were also destroyed.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
May 2023HailGlasco-Quarter sized hail reported just west of Glasco.
July 2020Flash FloodGlasco-Water over a 100 foot stretch of road near Crest and 40th, and a roadway under water at the 200 section of Eagle Road.
June 2020Flash FloodGlasco-Ditches overflowed just east of Glasco with water over Highway 24.
May 2018Tornado (EF1)Glasco-This broad but weak tornado damaged several outbuildings and power lines along its path. End point based on an extrapolation of a video and radar data.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Multiple reports of medium-sized tree limbs down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Law enforcement estimated 60 MPH winds.
May 2016HailGlasco-Radar estimated the time of occurrence.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Estimated winds 70-80 mph. Tree damage unknown.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wind gusts estimated.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Tree limbs reported down in the area.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Winds estimated at 60 mph and large tree limbs down.
June 2011FloodGlasco-In Glasco, about 12 to 18 inches of water flooded the local residential streets.
September 2010Flash FloodGlasco-Water was flowing over several county roads along the Cloud and Mitchell county line. Ditches along Highway 24 in southwest Cloud County filled up.
June 2009HailGlasco-Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A weak 12 inch diameter tree blew down.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A spotter estimated 70 mph wind gust.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Four to six inch tree limbs reported to be down.
June 2008HailGlasco-Hail from the size of quarters to the size of golfballs was reported by spotters under this thunderstorm.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A large tree limb was blown down.
July 2001LightningGlasco-Lightning struck a wheat field and started a fire, but rain soon put it out.
April 2019HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2016HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2016HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2014HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2013HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2013HailGlasco-no account filed
October 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
October 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
February 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
July 2012HailGlasco-no account filed
March 2011HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2009HailGlasco-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
June 2008HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2008HailGlasco-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
March 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
March 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
September 2006HailGlasco-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
April 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed
May 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
June 2005HailGlasco-no account filed
February 2004HailGlasco-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Glasco Downtown Historic District1.1 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89002173 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cloud CountyAll 10 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.