North Loup Bridge

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The North Loup Bridge brings a county road over the North Loup River, about 1.5 miles northeast of the village of North Loup in Valley County, Nebraska. It was built in 1912-1913 by Empire Bridge Company of Omaha, Nebraska, at cost of $13,089, using steel parts fabricated by Cambria Steel Company and Lackawanna Steel Company.”
Wikipedia article North Loup Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure · built in 1913.

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. Co. Rd. over the N. Loup R., 1.5 mi. NE of North Loup, North Loup, 68875
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
Township. North Loup township
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 92000704 - 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of North Loup Bridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
28 July 2005	Natural	7.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 April 2009	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 March 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
25 February 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 November 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 November 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Storms near this property

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Loup, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash 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
March 2019	Flood	North Loup	$2,000,000	no account filed
March 2019	Flash Flood	North Loup	$2,000,000	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	North Loup	$1,000,000	Hail up to the size of ping pong balls caused extensive crop damage in the area.
June 2010	Flash Flood	North Loup	$1,000,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	$500,000	Wind gusts estimated to be near 80 MPH caused widespread damage in eastern Valley and western Greeley counties. Along with tree damage, a handful of power poles were snapped, and several irrigation pivots were flipped. A number of grain bins and outbuildings were damaged, and a home north of North Loup suffered siding damage and also had a couple of trailers shifted from their parked spots.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	$250,000	Wind gusts were estimated at 80 MPH, causing tree damage across town and crop damage around the area. Two larger tree limbs were knocked down in town and fell onto vehicles.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	$150,000	A two story barn was heavily damaged, with one wall collapsed, by wind gusts estimated to be approaching 100 MPH. A nearby home suffered minor siding damage. A storage shed was moved from its foundation, being shoved up next to a power pole. Multiple grain bins also were damaged in the area, including one which was ripped from its foundation.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	$75,000	Large tree limbs and branches were reported down around the community of North Loup.
May 2012	Hail	North Loup	$75,000	no account filed
June 2011	Tornado (EF1)	North Loup	$50,000	This tornado touched down near the Davis Creek Reservoir, or approximately 5 miles south of North Loup, and lifted approximately 4 miles south of North Loup. At the Davis Creek Campground, it was estimated that 60 percent of the trees were damaged, and 2 restroom facilities suffered roof damage. The maximum wind speed of this tornado was estimated to be 90 MPH.
June 1997	Hail	North Loup	$30,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	North Loup	$25,000	Hail ranged from pennies to half dollars in size.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	$25,000	Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH were accompanied by walnut size hail. Some minor tree damage was reported.
July 2013	Hail	North Loup	$15,000	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	North Loup	$10,000	Most hail stones were smaller than quarters, but a few were as large as golf ball size.
May 1999	Hail	North Loup	$5,000	no account filed
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	$1,000	Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph resulted in moved irrigation pipe and a feed grinder being overturned.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	North Loup	-	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2018	Heavy Rain	North Loup	-	A storm total rainfall amount of 3.24 inches occurred six miles west-northwest of North Loup.
April 2003	Tornado (F0)	North Loup	-	A brief tornado was seen by a spotter just north to town.
August 2020	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	North Loup	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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 92000704 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 6 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.