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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Pawnee County · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cincinnati Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Closed Co. Rd. over S. Fk. Big Nemaha R., 1 mi. S, .2 mi. E of Du Bois, Du Bois, 68345
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
- Precinct. Precinct 1, Pawnee No. 1
- National Register reference number. 92000719 - 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 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cincinnati Bridge between 2000 and 2015, burning about 181 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Horton Agency | JOHN DEERE |
| 25 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Horton Agency | LOST |
| 15 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Horton Agency | K |
| 27 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Horton Agency | FOX |
| 15 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Horton Agency | FEE |
| 15 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Horton Agency | #33 |
| 14 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Horton Agency | HOUSE |
Storms near this property
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Du Bois, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | $30,000 | Large cottonwood tree fell on house. Shed and swing set torn out and flipped over. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Public report of hail estimated up to 1 inch in diameter. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Du Bois | - | Storm chaser videos indicate that an intermittent weak tornado tracked just south of Highway 8, beginning in an open field east of Highway 50, and continuing with an intermittent ground-level circulation and dust until ending prior to reaching 631 road. The ground level dust circulation did appear to be connected to a cloud base circulation, although without a fully visible condensation funnel. No damage was noted with this tornado. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | Emergency Management relayed a report of doors blown off a farm outbuilding. A subsequent damage survey found this was due to straight-line winds, estimated to be at 83 miles per hour. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Trained spotter reported 1-inch hail and a 35 mph wind gust. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | COOP observer reported hail slightly larger than quarters, but there weren't many of them. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Trained spotter reported 1.5-inch hail. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | COOP observer reported 1-inch hail near Du Bois. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail via mPING. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Public reported 1.25-inch hail. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | COOP Observer reported a that a shed blew over and crushed a can. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | COOP Observer reported trees down along Highway 50. |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Du Bois | - | A brief tornado destroyed half of a large outbuilding. |
| July 2020 | Flash Flood | Du Bois | - | Public reported minor lowland flooding affecting unmaintained roads along Turkey Creek. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter caused some scattered siding damage south of Pawnee City. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Du Bois | - | The storm may have also produced a funnel cloud. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph were also reported in the area. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph lasted for around 20 minutes in the Du Bois area. The winds were accompanied by torrential rain. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph blew down a very large mature tree in town and also caused other tree damage. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Du Bois | - | Flooding along Turkey Creek and its tributaries caused the closure of Highway 65 near the Kansas border. A few other county roads and agricultural lowlands also experienced flooding. The flooding caused around $400,000 dollars damage to bridges and culverts and for road repair. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Du Bois | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated by the public at 60 mph caused tree damage near Du Bois. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Du Bois | - | Hen egg sized hail reported on highway 8. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Du Bois | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Du Bois | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Du Bois | - | no account filed |
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 92000719 in Record Group 79. |
| Pawnee County | All 12 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.