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DUX Bessemer Bend Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The DUX Bessemer Bend Bridge was a Warren through truss bridge in Bessemer Bend, Wyoming, which carried Natrona County Road CN1-58 across the North Platte River. When nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, it was one of only three Warren through truss bridges remaining on Wyoming county highways.”
Wikipedia article DUX Bessemer Bend Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Natrona County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.
Also known as. Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming TR
Census division. Hells Half Acre
National Register reference number.85000428- 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
71 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 71 fires within 5 miles of DUX Bessemer Bend Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,876 acres in total. 24 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
40
Natural
24
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Debris and open burning
3
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 federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of DUX Bessemer Bend Bridge: 6 occurrences, 5 prospects, 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bessemer Bend, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 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.
Rainfall reports for the 24 hour period including the flash flood event ranged from 1.30 to 3.47 inches. Flooding was initially reported in downtown Casper where cars where were reported as floating in flowing water. On the south side of Casper, a house was reported as shifted off of its foundation. Interstate 25 became flooded at the peak of the event, and was closed for until well after rainfall ended. Low-lying tunnels on the south side of Casper had as much as 5 feet of water in them at the height of the storm. Damage values have been updated as of Oct 2023 and are from the FEMA presidential disaster declaration, FEMA-4739-DR-WY. No injuries or fatalities were reported to the NWS.
A storm moved into Natrona County and rapidly strengthened as it moved toward Highway 220 southwest of Casper. The thunderstorm peaked in intensity along Highway 220. A motorist reported golf ball size hail when driving through the storm.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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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