BlockFrom the record
One of 6 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Republican River Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Co. Rd. over the Republican R., 1 mi. E and 1.5 mi. S of Riverton, Riverton, 68972
- When was it listed? June 1992
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
- Township. Washington township
- National Register reference number. 92000765 - 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 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Republican River Bridge in 2018, burning about 66 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
36 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverton, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flood | Riverton | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall caused the flooding of area creeks, including the Thompson Creek, and portions of the Republican River. County roads in the area and bridges crossing the waterways were affected. Buildings in Riverton were threatened by rising waters of Thompson Creek. The Thompson Creek gauge at Riverton crested at 13.27 feet the morning of May 27th, and that was the 2nd highest crest on record. The Republican River gauge at Riverton crested at 9.45 feet the morning of the 27th, and that was the 2nd highest crest on record. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Riverton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Riverton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Riverton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Riverton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Riverton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Riverton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Riverton | $5,000 | Accompanying the hail was estimated 70 mph wind gusts. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Riverton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Riverton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $2,000 | Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $1,000 | The wind knocked down a portion of a wood fence and small tree debris was blown across the road. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles west-northwest of Riverton. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located two miles west-northwest of Riverton. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-northwest of Riverton. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | A farm building under construction was destroyed, likely by a combination of a strong gradient wind enhanced by thunderstorm outflow. Photo received via Facebook. |
| June 2013 | Flood | Riverton | - | Heavy rain overflowed Thompson Creek during the night and resulted in several rural road blockages well into the morning hours, including near 41 1/2 and J Roads. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Riverton | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.05 inches reported over last 24 hours by a NeRAIN observer. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Riverton | - | Storm total rainfall amount was 3.43 inches. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Riverton | - | Tornado first spotted near the Kansas state line four miles south of Riverton where it destroyed grain bins and outbuildings on a farm. It was last spotted at Franklin. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Riverton | - | no account filed |
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 record | The nomination case file for reference 92000765 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 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.