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

Deering Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Deering Bridge, near Sutton, Nebraska, is a historic bridge that was built in 1916. It is a concrete spandrel arch bridge designed by the Nebraska Bureau of Roads & Bridges and built by the Lincoln Construction Co.”

Wikipedia article Deering Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Clay 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 School Cr., 2 mi. N, 2 mi. E of Sutton, Sutton, 68979
  • When was it listed? June 1992
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
  • National Register reference number. 92000748 - 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Deering Bridge between 2003 and 2010, burning about 20 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/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 May 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sutton, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 28 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSutton2 hurt, $5,000,000no account filed
August 2020HailSutton$1,000,000Hail ranging in size from half dollars to baseballs was reported in Sutton.
July 2023Tornado (EF1)Sutton$750,000A brief tornado developed within a long-lived line of thunderstorms just prior to 7 AM CDT on July 29th. This tornado moved from northwest to southeast across the town of Sutton. The first visible damage occurred as the tornado developed on the northwest edge of Sutton. Tree damage was the most obvious damage in this area, with several large branches snapped. Some small outbuildings were also overturned and damaged, along with minor damage to homes, including windows, doors and siding. Roofing damage was limited in the early portions of the path. Most notable damage occurred in the downtown area of Sutton, where a steel roof was peeled off of a downtown building and lofted about one block to the south. There was also damage to brickwork on buildings, presumably as this roof was dragged across the top of adjacent buildings. This is where the estimated peak wind speeds of 110 MPH occurred. The tornado then continued southeast, snapping several trees across the southeast half of town. An old garage was also swept off of its foundation and blown into a nearby home and garage, causing significant damage to those buildings. Finally the tornado passed onto the golf course on the southeast edge of town. A maintenance building was severely damaged and several healthy trees were snapped. From here, the tornado passed into a corn field, producing a small path of crop damage. The tornado appeared to have lifted less than one-half mile southeast of Sutton.
April 2012HailSutton$250,000A few homes in Sutton suffered broken windows.
June 2004Flash FloodSutton$100,000Rainfall of 3 to 4 inches in northeast Clay county resulted in a flash flood along the School Creek west of Sutton.
July 2024Tornado (EF1)Sutton$50,000A QLCS tornado affected portions of eastern Clay County and western Fillmore County. This tornado touched down at approximately Road 315 and Z Road south of Sutton, then moved north-northeast where it impacted a farmstead along Z Road, just north of Road 316. Within this stretch of the tornado, several EF1 damage points were noted, particularly with respect to several large wooden power poles snapped, uprooted trees, and destroyed small grain bins. The grain bins were carried approximately 300 to 400 yards downstream into a nearby corn field that also sustained pivot damage. Small farm implements were also carried downwind, and a small chicken coop and other outbuildings were destroyed. Fortunately, the house received only minor damage to the siding. The tornado lifted shortly thereafter just northeast of the farmstead. In addition, a broad swath of severe crop damage was noted in the vicinity of and to the south of the tornado track, likely due to a combination of large hail and straight-line wind gusts of 60-80 MPH. Here, five foot tall healthy corn plants were reduced to 1-2 foot stalks, and bean fields were nearly unrecognizable. The peak wind gust was estimated to be 110 MPH, and the tornado width was based on power line damage south of the impacted farmstead.
July 2023HailSutton$50,000no account filed
June 2019HailSutton$50,000no account filed
July 2014HailSutton$50,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSutton$50,000no account filed
June 1997HailSutton$40,000no account filed
May 2007LightningSutton$30,000Lightning struck the water tower in Sutton. The lightning damaged some radio equipment located on the water tower. Several lightning strikes in the county caused some power and telephone outages. (source: Clay County News).
July 2007Flash FloodSutton$30,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSutton$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some tree limbs approximately 3 inches in diameter being downed.
May 2013HailSutton$25,000Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported.
May 2019HailSutton$25,000no account filed
May 2019HailSutton$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailSutton$25,000no account filed
December 2021Thunderstorm WindSutton$10,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 80 MPH. Power lines and trees were downed in Sutton.
April 2009HailSutton$10,000Quarter size hail reported covering the roads in Sutton.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindSutton$10,000no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindSutton$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailSutton$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSutton$10,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSutton$5,000One power line as well as some 2.5 to 3 inch tree limbs reported blown down.
April 2023HailSutton-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in Sutton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSutton-A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located one mile west-northwest of Sutton.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSutton-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage in Sutton.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSutton-Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in tree damage in Sutton. A few downed branches were at least 6 inches in diameter.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Sutton-This tornado briefly touched down approximately 6 miles north of Sutton, with an maximum wind speed estimated to be 75 MPH. No damage was reported.
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Sutton-Brief touchdown reported.
April 2022HailSutton-no account filed
June 2020HailSutton-no account filed
June 2019HailSutton-no account filed
August 2018HailSutton-no account filed
April 2016HailSutton-no account filed
May 2016HailSutton-no account filed
June 2015HailSutton-no account filed
May 2012HailSutton-no account filed
May 2012HailSutton-no account filed
July 2011HailSutton-no account filed
June 2007HailSutton-no account filed
May 2005HailSutton-no account filed
May 2003HailSutton-no account filed
September 2001HailSutton-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSutton-no account filed
May 1994Tornado (F0)Sutton-no account filed
July 1994HailSutton-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSutton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Isaac Newton Clark House3.0 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000748 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay CountyAll 10 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.