BlockFrom the record
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Pittsburg County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure · built in 1937.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rock Creek Bridge
Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Carries Co. Rd. NS-409.7 over Rock Creek, Blanco, 74560
- When was it listed? September 2008
- Category. structure
- Census division. Kiowa-Pittsburg
- When was it built? 1937
- National Register reference number. 08000853 - 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
228 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Rock Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42,811 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 94 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 94 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 86 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 165 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20484 |
| 3 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20354 |
| 20 September 2006 | Natural | 30 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20479 |
| 2 September 2000 | Natural | 950 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | BUCK CREEK |
| 17 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Talihina Agency | 51 |
| 7 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20375 |
Storms near this property
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanco, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 18 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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 2001 | Hail | Blanco | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Blanco | $30,000 | Golfball size hail damaged vehicles and the roofs of homes. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Blanco | $15,000 | Golfball size hail damaged vehicles and the roofs of homes. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Blanco | $15,000 | Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Blanco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Many roads in and around town were flooded. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused the low water crossing near Blanco to be flooded. |
| October 1997 | Flash Flood | Blanco | - | Severe thunderstorms developed in McIntosh and Pittsburg Counties during the late evening of October 30th and early morning of October 31st. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour near Kiowa, and quarter size hail fell 10 miles east of Checotah. Dime to nickel size hail fell at Eufaula and at Pittsburg, and dime size hail fell 4 miles northeast of Eufaula. The thunderstorms also produced very heavy rainfall which caused Brushy Creek to briefly overflow its banks resulting in flash flooding in the town of Blanco. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | Severe thunderstorms in southern Pittsburg County produced strong winds in Blanco which blew down large tree limbs. Dime-size hail also fell in Blanco, and nickel-size hail covered the ground 10 miles south of Blanco. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Blanco | - | Severe thunderstorms in southern Pittsburg County produced strong winds in Blanco which blew down large tree limbs. Dime-size hail also fell in Blanco, and nickel-size hail covered the ground 10 miles south of Blanco. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanco | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Blanco | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn's Station Site | 2.6 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 08000853 in Record Group 79. |
| Pittsburg County | All 32 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.