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Photograph of Goldfield Bridge
Photograph by Ann Sullivan-Larson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Goldfield Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Goldfield Bridge was a historic structure located in Goldfield, Iowa, United States. It was a 158-foot (48 m) Concrete deck girder span over the Boone River.”

Wikipedia article Goldfield Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Oak St. over Boone R., Goldfield, 50542
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Liberty township
  • National Register reference number. 98000456 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Goldfield Bridge: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amosson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Goldfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldfield, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGoldfield$25,000Law Enforcement reported multiple power lines and large trees down from Goldfield to Eagle Grove.
June 2008Flash FloodGoldfield$25,000Eagle Creek flooded and caused water to run over Highway C54 east of Eagle Grove.
May 2017HailGoldfield$20,000Trained spotter reported hail just under baseball in size. Time estimated by radar and report included a picture of the hail alongside a ruler.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGoldfield$15,000Numerous trees were blown down with many uprooted.
September 2016Flash FloodGoldfield$10,000Law enforcement reported water flowing over the road near River Park in Goldfield.
August 2007Flash FloodGoldfield$10,000Water was reported running over highways in and around Eagle Grove with widespread street flooding.
September 2001HailGoldfield$10,000no account filed
May 1995HailGoldfield$10,000no account filed
June 2015HailGoldfield$5,000Public reported golf ball sized hail via photo posted to the KCCI ulocal page.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGoldfield$5,000no account filed
May 1995HailGoldfield$5,000no account filed
September 2000HailGoldfield$3,000no account filed
August 2021Tornado (EF0)Goldfield-Tornado north of Goldfield remained in mostly rural agricultural fields, although some minor tree damage occurred at one farmstead Path was determined using high resolution satellite imagery.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGoldfield-Trained spotter reported tree limbs down due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2017HailGoldfield-Public reported golf ball sized hail.
April 2013Heavy RainGoldfield-Rainfall total of 4 inches.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Goldfield-no account filed
June 1999HailGoldfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Eagle Grove Public Library5.1 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright CountyAll 9 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.
  • 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.