Spencer's Crossing Bridge

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Spencer's Crossing Bridge, near Greeley, Kansas, was built in 1885. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article Spencer's Crossing Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Anderson County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1885.

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 Pottawatomie Creek, NW of Greeley, Greeley, 66033
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
Township. Walker township
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 89002177 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Spencer's Crossing Bridge between 2015 and 2018, burning about 202 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
Debris and open burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
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
16 June 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1854035
13 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1554035
8 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1554032
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kansas Forest Service	20
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1854025
9 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1854013
5 March 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	25
21 March 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	2016074

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 89002177 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Anderson County	All 5 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.