York Subway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The York Subway is a set of historic bridges over U.S. It was constructed between 1938 and 1939 and consists of three concrete bridges carrying 14th and 15th Streets and the tracks of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad over the highway.”
Wikipedia article York Subway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for York 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 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 14th and 15th Sts. and BNRR tracks over US 81, York, 68467
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
City. York city
National Register reference number. 92000772 - 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

50 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of York Subway between 2007 and 2017, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
20 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
7 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
24 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
12 July 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
6 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
30 June 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
28 June 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in York County

Storms near this property

60 of 90 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names York, the town this property stands in, in 90 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 51 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 3 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	York	1 hurt, $500,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$10,000,000	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Hail ranged in size from quarters to 2.5 inches in diameter in York. Some tree and canopy damage was reported on the York College campus.
June 2022	Hail	York	$10,000,000	Hail ranging in size anywhere from quarters to 2.5 inches in diameter was reported across York and in Waco. The largest stones of 2-2.5 inches in diameter were reported in the city of York. Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH was reported in York. Damage to trees and canopies on the York College campus was reported.
June 2022	Hail	York	$8,000,000	Most hail in and around York ranged in size from quarters to ping pong balls. The largest hail, tennis ball size, was reported by a storm chaser on the east side of York.
May 2011	Hail	York	$1,000,000	Hail up to 3 inches in diameter fell in York for several minutes. The roof of a city elementary school was totaled by the hail.
April 2005	Hail	York	$1,000,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	York	$250,000	Golfball size hail was covering the ground.
June 2005	Hail	York	$250,000	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$200,000	Wind gusts were estimated to be near 75 MPH in the area. Visibility was near-zero due to blowing dust, semi-trucks were tipped over along Interstate 80 in the area.
September 2016	Hail	York	$125,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	York	$100,000	Along with the golf ball size hail, wind gusts were estimated to be 70 mph, blowing down 2 to 4 inch diameter branches at the eastbound I-80 rest area in York County.
May 2011	Hail	York	$100,000	no account filed
April 2005	Heavy Rain	York	$100,000	no account filed
April 2005	Flash Flood	York	$100,000	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$100,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	York	$100,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	York	$75,000	Several reports of quarter to golf ball sized hail were received from around the York area.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$75,000	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	York	$60,000	Nickel to golf ball size hail was reported.
June 2006	Lightning	York	$50,000	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	York	$30,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$25,000	A wind gust of 82 MPH was measured approximately 1 mile south of the York interchange of Interstate 80.
May 2012	Hail	York	$25,000	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	York	$25,000	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	York	$25,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	York	$25,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$25,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$20,000	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	York	$15,000	Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported in the area.
July 2014	Hail	York	$15,000	This hail was reported just north of Interstate 80.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	York	$15,000	The following reports are 24-hour rain totals, with the vast majority of rainfall occurring between 1130 pm and 2 am CDT. Around 1 mile southwest of downtown York, 6.40 inches of rain fell. This was from the NERAIN network. About 1 mile east southeast of York, 4.93 inches of rain was reported from the NERAIN network. About 3 miles north of York, 4.71 inches of rain occurred, reported from a cooperative observer. A total of 4.03 inches of rain fell at the York Airport. In Bradshaw, 3.20 inches of rain was recorded by a cooperative observer.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$15,000	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$10,000	Scattered power outages in York reported by law enforcement.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$10,000	Tree limb 12 to 15 inches in diameter blown down.
September 2007	Heavy Rain	York	$10,000	About 2 inches of rain fell in the York area in less than 90 minutes.
June 2008	Hail	York	$10,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$10,000	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	York	$10,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	York	$10,000	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	York	$10,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	York	$5,000	The hail was accompanied by 60 mph winds.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	York	$2,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located in York.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	A wind gust of 61 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-northwest of York.
June 2019	Heavy Rain	York	-	A CoCoRaHS station recorded a rain total of 3.60 inches for the day, with rain ongoing at observation time. Most rain fell early morning of the 26th.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	York	-	A total of 3.04 inches was measured since midnight.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	York	-	A total of 3.08 inches was measured since midnight.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	Along with the golf ball size hail, wind gusts were estimated to be 70 mph, blowing down 2 to 4 inch diameter branches at the eastbound I-80 rest area in York County.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	Wind gusts between 60 and 70 MPH were reported in York.
August 2014	Hail	York	-	This report was received via Facebook.
August 2014	Hail	York	-	A few hail stones up to the size of quarters occurred on the north side of York.
July 2011	Heavy Rain	York	-	Total rainfall of 3.05 inches fell over the past 24 hours.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	Winds gusted up to 82 mph around York, blowing the roof off of a shed.
April 2023	Hail	York	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	York	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	York	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	York	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	York	-	no account filed
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	York	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in York 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	York Public Library	0.5 miles	1990
	York Auditorium	0.5 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000772 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
York 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.