BlockFrom the record
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Buffalo County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sweetwater Mill 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 Mud Cr., Sweetwater, 68844
- When was it listed? June 1992
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
- Precinct. Precinct 16
- National Register reference number. 92000767 - 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
28 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater Mill Bridge between 2007 and 2018, burning about 102 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 29 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 June 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetwater, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2008: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Flood | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Sweetwater | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bohning Memorial Auditorium | 5.0 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92000767 in Record Group 79. |
| Buffalo County | All 21 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.