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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Little Walnut Creek Bowstring
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Over Little Walnut Creek, NE of Walnut, Walnut, 66780
- When was it listed? January 1990
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
- Township. Walnut township
- National Register reference number. 89002174 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Little Walnut Creek Bowstring in 2015, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2015 | Smoking | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 100 |
Storms near this property
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Walnut | $200,000 | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down and blocked roads. Several power poles were blown down. A garage door was blown inward. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | $5,000 | A large barn was destroyed near Walnut, estimated at $30,000. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Walnut | - | Half dollar size hail was reported. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | A large tree was uprooted. Report received via social media. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | A few large limbs were downed in Walnut. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Walnut | - | A coop observer reported mostly pea sized hail with some nickel and penny sized hail mixed in. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | A low water crossing near the intersection of County Road 700 and 30th Street was flooded and impassable. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Walnut | - | Moderate street flooding was observed in Pittsburg for several hours. Other low lying roads across the county were also inundated with flooding. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Two inches of rain fell over southeast Crawford County. Minor flooding occurred over lowlands along Cowskin Creek. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Three to six inches of rain fell over Crawford County. Nearly all locations that experiences flooding during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. The area that was impacted the greatest was Cowskin Creek. Numerous areas near the city of Pittsburg were flooded including Lincoln Park and a mobile home park near Quincy and Lonestar Streets. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Excessive rain caused nearly all low water crossings across the county to flood. The Pittsburg area appeared to have been impacted with the greatest flooding as several city streets were affected. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Excessive rainfall combined with moist soil conditions caused flash flooding in areas of Crawford County. Locations flooded included Highway 7 from Highway 47 to Highway 39, a section of Highway 277, and a section of Highway 3. |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Two inches of rain fell in an hour causing flooding of creeks and low lying areas. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Walnut | - | 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 89002174 in Record Group 79. |
| Crawford County | All 23 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.