Bridge No. 3355-Kathio Township

Built in 1939 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Bridge Number 3355 in Kathio Township, in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, is a concrete slab bridge that carries U.S. Route 169 (US 169) over Whitefish Creek near Mille Lacs Lake.”
Wikipedia article Bridge No. 3355 (Kathio Township, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Mille Lacs County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1939, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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.
Listed as. Bridge No. 3355--Kathio Township - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US-169 over Whitefish Cr., Kathio Township, 56359
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Reinforced-Concrete Highway Bridges in Minnesota MPS
Township. Kathio township
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 98000685 - 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

468 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 468 fires within 5 miles of Bridge No. 3355-Kathio Township between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,759 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 249 were 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	249
Misuse of fire by a minor	93
Debris and open burning	71
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Fireworks	5
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Mille Lacs 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 98000685 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mille Lacs County	All 7 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.