County Line Bowstring

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The County Line Bowstring is a bridge located near unincorporated Hollis, Kansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It spans West Creek on the border between Cloud and Republic counties and has a wooden deck with a bowstring pony truss.”
Wikipedia article County Line Bowstring, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Cloud County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1876.

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. Over West Creek, NW of Hollis, Hollis, 66901
When was it listed? January 1990
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861-1939 MPS
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 89002192 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of County Line Bowstring between 2015 and 2017, burning about 40 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 December 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	1500025
13 January 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Republic County	1700001

Every fire 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Republican River Pegram Truss	4.0 miles	1990
Bankers Loan and Trust Company Building	7.3 miles	1977
Union Pacific Railroad Depot	7.3 miles	2004
Brown Grand Opera House	7.4 miles	1973
Nazareth Convent and Academy	7.8 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002192 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cloud County	All 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.