Photograph of Imes Bridge — Photograph by Jet Lowe, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Imes Covered Bridge

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Imes Bridge is a wooden covered bridge in Madison County, Iowa. Built in 1870, it was originally located over the Middle River.”
Wikipedia article Imes Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 55 National Register listings published here for Madison County · listed in 1979 · category: Structure · built in 1870.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. IA 251, St. Charles, 50240
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. structure
Township. South township
When was it built? 1870
National Register reference number. 76000784 - 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Imes Covered Bridge between 2006 and 2019, burning about 706 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
30 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 June 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	320 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	DONAR
21 March 2015	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 March 2016	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	VIRGINIA TOWNSHIP
13 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	346 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Madison 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hogan and Martha A. Runkle Queen House	5.2 miles	1987
	William Ogburn House	6.9 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000784 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Madison County	All 55 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.