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Photograph of Lisco State Aid Bridge
Photograph by Ammodramus, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lisco State Aid Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Lisco State Aid Bridge is located on a county road over the North Platte River, south of Lisco, Nebraska, near Rush Creek Ranch. Completed in 1928, the bridge today "is distinguished as an important crossing of the Platte River and one of the last two intact multiple-span state aid truss bridges" in Nebraska.”

Wikipedia article Lisco State Aid Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Garden 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 the N. Platte R., .6 mi S of Lisco, Lisco, 69148
  • When was it listed? June 1992
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
  • Precinct. Lisco precinct
  • Architect. Nebraska Department of Roads
  • National Register reference number. 92000757 - 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

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lisco State Aid Bridge between 2007 and 2012, burning about 384 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2012Natural2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 June 2007Naturalunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Garden County

Storms near this property

60 of 98 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisco, the town this property stands in, in 98 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 57 hail, 38 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 1998Flash FloodLisco$200,000Flash flooding along and south of the North Platte river from near Lisco to near Lewellen washed out several county roads with many county roads closed.
June 1998HailLisco$25,000Damage to vehicles and buildings in Lisco.
June 2009HailLisco$15,000Hail covered the ground up to 1 to 2 inches deep creating slippery roads.
August 2002HailLisco$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailLisco$6,000no account filed
August 2008HailLisco$5,000Marble to golfball size hail and 50 MPH winds chipped the paint from the siding of a house and cracked two windows.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindLisco$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large branches.
June 2014HailLisco$5,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLisco$2,000Six inch diameter tree limbs were broken off.
July 2000HailLisco$2,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph downed tree limbs.
September 2004HailLisco$2,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLisco$1,000no account filed
June 2024Flash FloodLisco-Garden county Sheriff's office reports flooding in several places along highway 26 between Lisco and Oshkosh. Location estimated with MRMS data.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindLisco-Coop observer estimated 70 MPH winds at this location.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gust of 61 MPH reported at this location.
June 2021HailLisco-Hail was nickel to quarter size at this location.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLisco-The RAWS station at Crescent Lake measured a 69 mph wind gust.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-Multiple healthy trees uprooted across town.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-Roof blown off shed. Vehicles inside the shed were damaged.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-No details.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLisco-Roof blown off shed and the vehicles inside were damaged.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLisco-Crescent Lake NWR RAWS station measured 65 mph wind gusts.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLisco-Wind observation recorded from RAWS, gust happened between 158 AM and 258 AM CDT.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-No information available.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-No damage reported.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-No damage reported.
August 2018HailLisco-Extensive damage was reported at the property, including broken windows and siding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLisco-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLisco-No significant damage reported from this wind gust.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLisco-No significant damage reported from this wind gust.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-General public located 11 miles south southeast of Lisco reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-General public located 11 miles south southeast of Lisco reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 MPH reported at this location.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH at this location.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLisco-General Public reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLisco-A trained spotter reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 80 mph.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorm wind gust of 65 MPH estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2011HailLisco-Public reported golf ball sized hail.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLisco-Downed tree limbs resulted from strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorms produced severe criteria wind gusts north of the Oshkosh area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLisco-Thunderstorms produced severe criteria wind gusts in northern Garden county.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLisco-The winds broke off 8 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2009HailLisco-Hail covered the ground.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLisco-Strong thunderstorm winds broke off large tree limbs. The thunderstorm also produced torrential rain and flattened wheat crops.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLisco-Tree limbs to 10 inch diameter down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
June 2023HailLisco-no account filed
June 2023HailLisco-no account filed
June 2023HailLisco-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
June 2022HailLisco-no account filed
August 2019HailLisco-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLisco-no account filed
August 2018HailLisco-no account filed
June 2016HailLisco-no account filed
June 2016HailLisco-no account filed
April 2015HailLisco-no account filed
May 2015HailLisco-no account filed
May 2015HailLisco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garden 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000757 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garden CountyAll 6 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.