Photograph of Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge — Photograph by Photo by Greg Hume ( Greg5030 ), CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Maysville-Aberdeen Bridge

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge is a suspension bridge built in 1931 that carries U.S. Route 62 across the Ohio River to connect Maysville, Kentucky with Aberdeen, Ohio.”
Wikipedia article Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure · built in 1931.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. Spans Ohio River between Maysville, KY, and Aberdeen, OH, Maysville, 41056
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. structure
Census division. Maysville
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 83002823 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Maysville-Aberdeen Bridge between 1999 and 2014, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Maysville-Aberdeen Bridge: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Buckeye Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Franfort Mtls. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maysville Dredging, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this property

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maysville, the town this property stands in, in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 29 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 5 flash flood, 3 flood. 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
July 2017	Flash Flood	Maysville	$750,000	Five to seven inches of rain produced widespread flash flooding across Mason County. Several homes were damaged by rushing water, including one home that was washed off its foundation along State Route 11 east of Maysville. About 60 vehicles were washed away from an auto sales lot in Maysville. Numerous roads across the area also sustained damaged due to the rushing water.
May 2003	Tornado (F3)	Maysville	$500,000	The tornado touched down to the southeast of Maysville, continuing east-southeast into Lewis County. The greatest damage occurred in the Heron Hill area in western Lewis County. Seventeen people were injured in Lewis County. 21 homes were destroyed, 10 homes sustained major damage and 17 homes received minor damage. Numerous barns, buildings and garages were also damaged or destroyed. The tornado appeared to skip across parts of Mason and Lewis Counties. Tornado damage ended four miles to the southeast of Vanceburg.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$50,000	The damage surveyed consisted of a large limb on a car and a large limb on a house. There was also major damage to one building where the high winds produced a large hold in the side of the building. In another area of town, a tree was blown down onto a car and a power pole snapped in half and fell onto a car. Several large limbs were blown down on the railroad tracks. In addition, the weight room at the Mason County School football field was damaged. All the damage surveyed in these locations indicated straight line wind damage.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Maysville	$20,000	One car was washed away and four cars were washed out of a parking lot nearby due to heavy rainfall. People were also trapped on the 2nd floor of an apartment building.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$20,000	A microburst tore a metal roof off a barn and uprooted several trees.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$20,000	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$20,000	no account filed
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$15,000	A large tree was knocked down through a house.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$15,000	A roof was ripped off of an apartment building due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Maysville	$15,000	Numerous roads were closed due to high water. Some families were evacuated from their homes in eastern portions of the county.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$10,000	An 84 Lumber building along US Routes 62 and 68 had aluminum siding blown out in two spots.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$8,000	Numerous trees were knocked down and siding was off of a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A roof was also taken off a barn due to the winds.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$8,000	A barn had its roof peeled off. Trees were also downed in the area.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$6,000	Trees and power lines were downed across the county.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$5,000	Several trees down.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$5,000	Trees downed.
March 1995	Hail	Maysville	$5,000	A severe thunderstorm formed over Pendleton County during the early morning hours of March 23rd, then moved east. Dime size hail was reported in Milford (Bracken County) and Sardis (Robertson County). Nickel size hail was reported in Falmouth (Pendleton County), and golfball size hail fell in Maysville (Mason County).
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$4,000	Several trees were blown down in the city of Maysville.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$3,000	Numerous branches up to six inches in diameter were knocked down in Maysville, including a large tree that fell on Jersey Ridge Road.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$3,000	Trees were knocked down in Maysville.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$3,000	Several trees were knocked down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$3,000	Many large limbs downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$3,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$2,000	Several trees were reported down.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$2,000	Two trees were downed, both blocking roads.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$2,000	Two trees were downed along State Route 8.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$2,000	Large limbs were downed.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$2,000	no account filed
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$1,000	A large tree was knocked down in the Maysville/Mason County Cemetery.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$1,000	A tree was downed.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	$1,000	A few large limbs were downed in Maysville due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Maysville	$1,000	High water was over roads in Maysville due to heavy rainfall.
August 2007	Hail	Maysville	$1,000	no account filed
January 2023	Flood	Maysville	-	High water was reported on several roads in the Maysville and Orangeburg areas.
February 2021	Flood	Maysville	-	High water was reported over Orangeburg Road.
September 2018	Flood	Maysville	-	Several roads across Mason County remained closed due to high water.
October 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	-	Pea size hail was also reported.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	-	The spotter estimated the wind gust.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Maysville	-	A few trees and power lines were downed.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Maysville	-	Two roads were flooded in town.
July 1995	Hail	Maysville	-	Hail covered the ground.
April 2015	Hail	Maysville	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Maysville	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Maysville	-	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Maysville	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Maysville	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Maysville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason County

Newspapers printed here

62,602 digitised pages

8 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 15,519 issues, 62,602 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
Daily Public Ledger	1892 to 191?
The Dollar Weekly Bulletin	1862 to 1864
Daily Evening Bulletin	1881 to 1882
Evening Bulletin	1882 to 1883
The Public Ledger	1913 to 1968
Maysville Weekly Bulletin	1864 to 1866
Daily Evening Bulletin	1883 to 1887
The Evening Bulletin	1887 to 1905

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

6 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
McKay's Studio	0.1 miles	1982
128 Market Street	0.1 miles	1982
Cox Building, The	0.2 miles	2011
Russell Theatre	0.2 miles	2006
49 West Second Street	0.2 miles	1982
Maysville Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002823 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mason County	All 43 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.