Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Otoe County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 unnamed stream, 4.1 mi. SW of Lorton, Lorton, 68448
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
Precinct. McWilliams precinct
National Register reference number. 92000733 - 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

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Bridge between 2002 and 2020, burning about 46 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
13 June 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
23 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
5 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 March 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
21 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Otoe County

Storms near this property

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorton, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorton	$10,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph ripped all of the vinyl siding off the side of a house southeast of Syracuse and two large sliding doors on a shed were blown off of their tracks. The winds were also accompanied by hail up to dime-size.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorton	-	Emergency manager reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorton	-	Public reported 2 grain bins blown down and another severely damaged. Small grain weigh shed destroyed.
August 2019	Funnel Cloud	Lorton	-	A funnel cloud was reported 4 miles north-northeast of Cook.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorton	-	A trained storm spotter estimated 60 mph winds south of Lorton Village.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorton	-	A storm survey revealed a swath of damage winds to the south of the tornado track, likely associated with the rear-flank downdraft of the slow-moving Otoe County supercell. The damage was confined to flattened corn and broken or snapped tree limbs.
March 2011	Hail	Lorton	-	Hail up to dime-size was accompanied by thunderstorm winds that were estimated at a little over 60 mph.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorton	-	A spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph.
April 2005	Hail	Lorton	-	Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter caused some tree and vehicle damage in Lorton. The hail piled up a foot deep in spots and snowplows were used to clear some roads in the area.
March 2012	Hail	Lorton	-	no account filed
March 2012	Hail	Lorton	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Lorton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otoe 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 92000733 in Record Group 79.
Otoe County	All 27 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.