Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“Sargent Bridge was a Pratt through truss steel bridge that spanned the Middle Loup River near Sargent, Nebraska. In 1992, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as one of the few remaining steel truss bridges constructed in Nebraska during the early 20th century.”
Wikipedia article Sargent Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.92000740- 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.
Sargent, a hustling village of over 800 inhabitants, is situated in the northeastern part of Custer count)', in the midst of a fine agricultural and stock-raising district. It is located on the north side of the Middle Loup river, about one mile from that stream. Sargent is one of the oldest towns in the county, having been laid out in 1883. The first bank in the county is located here. The first building erected was the general store of J. K. Spacht. in the summer of 1883, and the location was the middle of a field of wheat. The town grew rapidly and was particularly lively in the summer of 1888, when the B. & AI. Railroad grade was built, and it was expected that the cars would be running into the town that fall. Owing to a big strike on the system, the road was not completed at that time. The drouth years of the early '90s caused the town to dwindle down to a mere shadow of its former proportions. In the fall of 1899, however, the railroad was built from Arcadia to Sargent, making the latter the terminus, and since that time the town has had a very substantial growth. The Independent Telephone Company, of Broken Bow, extended its line to Sargent in the fall of 1900. The same fall was erected a fine, two-storv frame school building, which now houses one of the best schools in the county, under the charge of three teachers. Sargent has two churches, the Congregational and the ]\Iethodist. It has several fine business blocks, two newspapers, two banks, two grain elevators, and a creamery, with other lines of business well represented. Following is a complete business directory of the town, March 8, 1901 :
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sargent Bridge
between 2007 and 2019, burning about 238 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
8
Smoking
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sargent, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 52 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 7 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.
The tornado touched down 2 miles west of Sargent with damage to a farm building and center pivot irrigation system. The tornado moved north northeast with several power poles broken off and minor damage produced at a farm 2 miles northwest of Sargent. The tornado then moved across open country until destroying a communication tower and several power poles 5 miles north of Sargent. A farm building was then damaged 6 miles north of Sargent before the tornado moved into southeast Loup county.
Heavy rainfall led to the failure of a 50 foot dam near 3 miles southwest of Broken Bow on highway 21. The flood water moved down toward the southwest edge of town to impact the Callaway road one mile west of town and highway 21 as water flowed across the roads. Rainfall gage estimates around town measured up to 4.5 inches with several streets and homes in town flooded as well due to heavy rain.
Numerous 12 inch diameter tree branches were downed and power poles were snapped in Sargent. At the airport, two hangar doors were blown out and four planes were moved.
At 1724CST, a tornado briefly touched down 4 miles north of Sargent. No damage was reported or observed during storm survey. Peak wind was estimated at 65 mph and rated an EF-0 tornado. Path width was 40 yards.
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.
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.
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