Bridgeport, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52553. It stands on Grays Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eddyville quadrangle.

Bridgeport within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Oskaloosa quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport between 2015 and 2018, burning about 204 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 April 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	EDDYVILLE VFD
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Drill Hole	Zinc	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Archie Harding Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Eddyville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Halverson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Reese Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Eddyville Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hargis Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Corner	3.6 miles	8
Frederic	4.5 miles	8
Lockman	6.6 miles	8
Avery	6.9 miles	8
Buxton	8.8 miles	10
Miami	9.8 miles	10
Maxon	10.1 miles	10
Bluff Creek	10.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 465473. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.