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Photograph of Fort Atkinson Bridge
Photograph by Kevin Schuchmann, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Atkinson Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Winneshiek County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 150th St. over Turkey R., Fort Atkinson, 52144
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Washington township
  • National Register reference number. 98000460 - 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

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fort Atkinson Bridge between 2008 and 2020, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2472 175TH ST., CALMAR, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Winneshiek County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Fort Atkinson Bridge: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bullerman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ft Atkinson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Horseshoe Bend QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schmitz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Steinlage QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek 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

5 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
Wenzil Taylor Building3.8 miles1979
Calmar Passenger Depot3.9 miles2011
Big Stone Mills4.6 miles
Cooley-Whitney House7.6 miles1980
Lawrence Bridge7.9 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000460 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Winneshiek CountyAll 36 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.