Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
From the record
“The Niobrara River Bridge is a triple-span railroad bridge over the Niobrara River in Niobrara State Park, Knox County, Nebraska, that was built in 1929.”
Wikipedia article Niobrara River Bridge (Niobrara State Park, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Knox County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.92001576- 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
14 since 2004
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Niobrara River Bridge
between 2004 and 2019, burning about 1,414 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
8
Debris and open burning
5
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Niobrara, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 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.
Rainfall of at least 4 to 8 inches fell across the Ponca Creek basin from late in the evening of the 21st into the early morning hours of the 22nd. The heavy rain caused flooding along Ponca Creek for much of July 22nd. The creek near Verdel crested a little over 14.5 feet during the early afternoon hours of the 22nd, flood stage is 12 feet. The flooding caused numerous washouts of county roads and and also flooded Highway 12 along with agricultural lowlands. Several culverts needed replacement after the flood. There was also significant flooding of a resort near the Missouri River close to where Ponca Creek flows into it with over 2 feet of water reported in the campground.
Rainfall of 4 to 6 inches fell across much of this area during the night of July 21st and 22nd. The heavy rain produced flooding along Bazile Creek which flooded across Highway 12 east of Niobrara depositing some debris and causing its temporary closure. A Few county roads in the area were also flooded as were agricultural lowlands near the Creek.
Heavy rain that fell across northeast Nebraska during the evening and overnight hours of May 29th and 30th caused flooding along Bazile Creek from east of Niobrara to around the Bloomfield area and along Verdigre Creek near Verdigre. County roads along the creeks were flooded with some bridge approaches severely damaged. Highway 12 east of Niobrara was flooded along with agricultural lowlands and a park near Verdigre.
Rapid snow melt caused flooding of small streams in Knox county. Bazile Creek, near Maiden's Leap, 5 miles east of Niobrara, flooded a few county roads and Highway 12 causing their closure.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph severely damaged a trailer, uprooted 2 trees, upset a center pivot, and caused some building damage in an area from 6 miles southwest of Niobrara into Niobrara.
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.
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.
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