Willow Creek Bridge

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

From the record

“The Willow Creek Bridge, which brought a Pierce County, Nebraska road over Willow Creek, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) miles south of Foster, Nebraska, was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”
Wikipedia article Willow Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Pierce 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 Willow Cr., 6.5 mi. S of Foster, Foster, 68767
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
Precinct. Clover Valley precinct
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 92000706 - 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

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Willow Creek Bridge between 2008 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 2 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	6
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 July 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 June 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 May 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
26 April 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 February 2016	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
3 November 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 October 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

14 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025	Hail	Foster	-	Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 1 inch in diameter.
June 2024	Hail	Foster	-	The office received a report from a trained sporter of hail ranging from penny to quarter sized.
July 2023	Hail	Foster	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
April 2023	Hail	Foster	-	Public reported 1-inch hail.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	-	Personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
June 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Foster	-	Brief Touchdown.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	-	Out buildings were destroyed due to the strong wind gusts.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	-	A spotter estimated thunderstorm winds reached around 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Foster	-	The public estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of around 60 mph.
July 2015	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Foster	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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 92000706 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce 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.
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.