Adamson Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Cherry County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

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. NE 97 over the Niobrara R., 7.8 mi. SW of Valentine, Valentine, 69201
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
Precinct. Valentine precinct
National Register reference number. 92000749 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Adamson Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,552 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge	FTN UNIT34
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge	28A3 #1
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge	28A3 #2
20 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge	GORDON CRK
13 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge	VANDERPLOU
12 August 2020	Natural	10 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	DODSON
8 July 2017	Natural	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
29 July 2020	Natural	3.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Cherry County

Storms near this property

60 of 194 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valentine, the town this property stands in, in 194 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 102 hail, 73 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Hail	Valentine	$400,000	Media reported nearly 300 cars damaged at a car dealership on the west side of Valentine.
July 2003	Hail	Valentine	$48,000	A supercell thunderstorm moved across Big Alkali Lake camping area, as well as other smaller nearby lakes, producing strong winds and large hail. Numerous windshields and windows were broken in campers, pickup trucks, and cabins. The hail also damaged the bodies of vehicles and the siding on the campers.
June 2007	Hail	Valentine	$35,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Valentine	$25,000	Hail broke windshields in vehicles and damaged siding on homes.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$25,000	Semi truck blown over
June 2007	Hail	Valentine	$25,000	no account filed
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$15,000	Law enforcement reported a roof ripped off a trailer and large tree limbs down approximately 10 inches in diameter.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Valentine	$10,000	Storm chaser reports numerous streets under water in Valentine.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$10,000	Several large trees were blown down.
July 2009	Hail	Valentine	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Valentine	$10,000	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$10,000	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Valentine	$8,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$5,000	A fireman in Valentine reported roofs blown off houses, power poles down, and localized street flooding.
July 1998	Hail	Valentine	$5,000	no account filed
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$4,000	Strong winds blew shingles off roof.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Valentine	$3,000	Numerous streets were under water.
June 2006	Hail	Valentine	$3,000	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Valentine	$3,000	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Valentine	$3,000	no account filed
July 2020	Flood	Valentine	$1,000	Nearly one inch of rain in 30 minutes caused minor flooding.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 59 MPH measured at this location.
July 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Valentine	-	Brief touchdown in an open field. No damage reported.
July 2025	Hail	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 70 MPH were also reported along with half dollar sized hail.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Trained spotter estimates wind gusts up to 80 MPH at this location.
September 2025	Hail	Valentine	-	Delayed report of hail 1.75 inches in diameter. Time was estimated by radar.
September 2025	Hail	Valentine	-	Public reported half dollar sized hail in Valentine.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	A home weather station measured a 71 mph wind gust in Valentine.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 62 MPH reported by a mesonet site in Valentine. No damage was reported.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Valentine ASOS measured 58 mph wind gusts.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph reported at the Valentine Airport.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Strong winds from a heat burst was observed by the ASOS.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Strong winds were observed on the ASOS at Valentine.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Wind gust reported on mesonet site.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	A 64 MPH wind gust was reported by the ASOS.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	No details.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	No details.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Valentine	-	There were reports by the public of multiple streets flooded in town.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Numerous debris reported on the ground. Winds estimated at 60 MPH.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts of 82 MPH reported at Miller Field.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	A fourteen inch diameter tree split in half. Power outages reported.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	A sixteen inch diameter tree blown over.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	No information available.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	No information available.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	No information available.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Numerous large trees reported down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	No damage reported.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 61 MPH measured at the Valentine Airport.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	The Valentine ASOS recorded a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph during the early morning hours on May 15th.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Tree down near spotter's location.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Valentine	-	Runoff from heavy rain led to street flooding with water depths between one and two feet reported on some streets.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Valentine	-	Widespread street flooding continues across portions of Valentine as reported by the Emergency Manager.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Thunderstorm wind gust measured at the Valentine Municipal Airport.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Wind gust was measured with a Davis Weather Instrument.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Valentine Airport ASOS measured a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2016	Hail	Valentine	-	Quarter size hail damaged garden plants.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Valentine	-	Observer for NWS reported 60 kt wind gust.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Valentine	-	Law enforcement reported significant street flooding within the city of Valentine. Water was onto sidewalks throughout town. Public report of water near the courthouse front door, due to street and sidewalk flooding.

Every storm recorded in Cherry 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bryan Bridge	7.5 miles	1988
F. M. Walcott House	7.6 miles	1982
Cherry County Courthouse	7.8 miles	1990
US Post Office-Valentine	7.8 miles	1991
Valentine Public School	7.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000749 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cherry 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.