Turkey River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

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

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · 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. Little Church Rd. over Turkey R., Festina, 52147
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
National Register reference number. 98000468 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Turkey River Bridge: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Jacobsen Quarry	Flagstone	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Schwemman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
St Lucas Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Waucoma Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Winneshiek County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Festina, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Festina	$20,000	A 30 foot section of a roof was blown off a cattle shed with another shed extensively damaged southeast of Ft. Atkinson.
July 2009	Hail	Festina	$10,000	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Festina	$4,500	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Festina	$2,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Festina	$200	Trees were blown down across State Highway 150 near Festina.

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000468 in Record Group 79.
Winneshiek County	All 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.
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.