Prairie Dog Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Prairie Dog Creek Bridge, near Orleans, Nebraska, is a historic Camelback pony truss bridge that was built in 1913. It was designed and built by Monarch Engineering Co., with its steel was fabricated by Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.”
Wikipedia article Prairie Dog Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Harlan County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.

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. Twp. Rd. over Prairie Dog Cr., 8.5 mi. S and 1 mi. W of Orleans, Orleans, 68966
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
Township. Eldorado township
National Register reference number. 92000712 - 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.

Storms near this property

54 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orleans, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 35 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 2 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
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	$350,000	The emergency manager reported damage to a farmstead near this mesonet site. Damage included blown down power poles, building damage, uprooted trees, overturned pivots, windows blown out of a home and vehicles.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	$230,000	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Orleans	$150,000	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Orleans	$100,000	Tennis ball to baseball size hail was reported.
May 2004	Hail	Orleans	$100,000	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Orleans	$50,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	$50,000	no account filed
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	$25,000	Tree damage was reported on the north side of town. Wind gusts estimate based on nearby mesonet measurement.
June 2011	Hail	Orleans	$25,000	no account filed
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	$15,000	Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph resulted in downed trees along with power outages.
June 2002	Hail	Orleans	$10,000	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Orleans	$10,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Orleans	$2,000	no account filed
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles north-northwest of Alma.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located six miles west of Huntley.
April 2022	Tornado (EFU)	Orleans	-	This tornado briefly touched down a few miles southwest of Orleans. Location and time was approximated from social media photos and radar. No damage was reported.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Orleans	-	A CoCoRaHS observer measured 6.22 of rain between 5 p.m. and midnight CDT.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	A wind gust of 63 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located six miles northwest of Orleans.
August 2020	Hail	Orleans	-	Hail ranging in size from quarters to golf balls was reported along this path.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Orleans	-	Up to one foot of water was flowing across a low spot on Highway 136. Highway was closed until the flood waters receded. Low spots in some county gravel roads nearby were also washed out and/or had water flowing over them. An NeRAIN observer in Alma measured a 24-hour rain total of 3.13, most of which fell between 1-3 p.m. CDT on the 18th.
June 2018	Heavy Rain	Orleans	-	A storm total rainfall amount of 3.70 inches three miles northeast of Stamford, 3.48 inches occurred two miles east of Stamford, 3.25 inches occurred 3 miles north of Alma, 3.02 inches occurred in Orleans.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Penny size hail accompanied the winds.
October 2011	Heavy Rain	Orleans	-	Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 3.70 inches was reported.
October 2011	Heavy Rain	Orleans	-	Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 3.81 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
May 2010	Hail	Orleans	-	Hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated between 55 and 60 mph.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Orleans	-	A brief tornado was reported north of Orleans
May 2023	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Orleans	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Orleans	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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 92000712 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Harlan 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.
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.