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Photograph of Rattlesnake Creek Bridge
Photograph by Ammodramus, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rattlesnake Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Rattlesnake Creek Bridge brings a Cuming County, Nebraska county road over Rattlesnake Creek, 2.8 miles northwest of Bancroft. It was built in 1903 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.”

Wikipedia article Rattlesnake Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Cuming 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. Co. Rd. over Rattlesnake Cr., 2.8 mi. NW of Bancroft, Bancroft, 68004
  • When was it listed? June 1992
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
  • Township. Bancroft township
  • National Register reference number. 92000743 - 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

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rattlesnake Creek Bridge in 2002, burning about 18 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
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 May 2002Smoking18 acresWinnebago AgencyA1302054

Every fire recorded in Cuming County

Storms near this property

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bancroft, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A 69 miles per hour wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Trained spotter reported widespread tree damage in and near Bancroft.
July 2023Tornado (EF1)Bancroft-A brief 1/2 mile long tornado which was embedded with an area of intense downburst winds started on the north side of Bancroft. The tornado dented in a grain bin, destroyed an outbuilding and snapped about a half dozen trees. The tornado continued east, damaged some sheds, knocked over a tractor trailer, and snapped more trees.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Public reported estimated 80 mph wind gusts and power outages.
August 2022HailBancroft-Emergency manager reported 1 inch hail.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Law enforcement reported a flattened corn.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Personal weather station reported a peak wind gusts of 61 mph.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Bancroft-Tornado segment 1 of 2. This tornado began southwest of Bancroft, uprooting several large pine trees, collapsing a windmill, and tearing shingles of the roof of a home. The tornado continued northeast, passing just northwest of Bancroft and entered Thurston County northwest of Rosalie.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Personal weather station measured a 61 mph wind gust.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Public personal weather station report winds of 60 MPH.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A storm chaser measured a 70 mph wind gust 4 miles west of Bancroft.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Trees and power lines down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Local law enforcement reported that trees limbs and power lines were downed by the strong winds in town.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph downed several large tree limbs in town.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at nearly 70 mph north of Bancroft before the storm weakened.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBancroft-A trained weather spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts approached 60 mph.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Bancroft-Brief tornado touchdown in open country observed by storm chasers.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 60 mph downed tree limbs northwest of Bancroft.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBancroft-Trees and power lines were blown down at Bancroft.
June 2016HailBancroft-no account filed
July 2016HailBancroft-no account filed
April 2015HailBancroft-no account filed
September 2015HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2014HailBancroft-no account filed
May 2011HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2009HailBancroft-no account filed
August 2008HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2001HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2001HailBancroft-no account filed
June 2001HailBancroft-no account filed
May 1999HailBancroft-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBancroft-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cuming 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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John G. Neihardt Study2.9 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000743 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cuming CountyAll 3 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.