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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2020 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Manning Milwaukee Railroad Trestle
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Crosses Railroad/Center St., 682 ft. north of Julia St., Manning, 51455
- When was it listed? August 2020
- Category. structure
- Township. Ewoldt township
- National Register reference number. 100005487 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
29 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Manning Milwaukee Railroad Trestle between 2006 and 2016, burning about 386 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 | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2012 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 2012 | Smoking | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this property
38 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manning, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $35,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $25,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manning | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Manning | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $10,000 | Law Enforcement reported power outages in the Manning area. |
| June 2010 | Heavy Rain | Manning | $10,000 | Overnight total of 2 inches. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $3,000 | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $3,000 | Two vehicles were blown off of the road. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Manning | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Manning | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manning | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Manning | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Manning | $200 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Manning | - | Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud southwest of Halbur. Time and location estimated by radar. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | - | Wind gust report from a personal weather station. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Manning | - | Dime to quarter sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Manning | - | Trained spotter reports seeing a funnel cloud just north of Manning, Iowa. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | - | A trained spotter reported a large tree limb 6 inches in diameter and 20 feet long was downed. Several smaller limbs were downed as well. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Manning | - | Public reported half dollar sized hail via social media. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 1.24 inches. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.37 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| November 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Manning | - | Public report of tornado. Pictures taken by nearby residents indicated narrow path through cornfield. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | - | Trained spotter reported thunderstorm winds of approximately 60 mph. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Manning | - | Pea to nickel size hail was reported. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Brief heavy rainfall with minor street flooding reported in Manning. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Measured rainfall in the past 1.5 hours was 3 inches. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Rainfall total from last night was 3.10 inches. |
| May 2008 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Manning | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Manning | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manning Water Tower | 0.4 miles | 2016 | |
| Manning Commercial Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2015 | |
| Leet, William A., and Frederick Hassler Farmstead District | 0.8 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005487 in Record Group 79. |
| Carroll County | All 20 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.