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Lock and Dam No. 12 Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Lock and Dam No. 12 is a lock and dam located on the Upper Mississippi River at Bellevue, Iowa, United States. The movable portion of the dam starts at the locks adjacent to the Iowa shore and is 849 feet (258.8 m) long, consisting of seven tainter gates and three roller gates.”
Wikipedia article Lock and Dam No. 12, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 401 N. Riverview St., Bellavue, 61041
When was it listed? March 2004
Category. district
National Register reference number. 04000172 - 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

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lock and Dam No. 12 Historic District between 2006 and 2014, burning about 250 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	4
Debris and open burning	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
28 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	FIRST
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Lock and Dam No. 12 Historic District: 17 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bellevue Clay Products Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Nobis Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Royal Princess Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Bellevue Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kueter Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Little Gem Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Royal Princess Mine	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	1903, 1910
Theodore Volquaidts Prospect	Zinc	Occurrence	1966
Theodore Volquaidts Prospect	Zinc	Prospect
Bellevue Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Building at 101 North Riverview Street	0.8 miles	1991
Building at 130-132 North Riverview Street	0.8 miles	1991
Bellevue Herald Building	0.8 miles	1991
Building at 126 South Riverview Street	0.8 miles	1991
Bellevue Commercial Historic District	0.9 miles	2022
Kucheman Building	0.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 77 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.
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.