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Photograph of Coal Creek Bridge
Photograph by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coal Creek Bridge

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Coal Creek Bridge was located southeast of Carlisle, Iowa, United States. The 88-foot (27 m) span carried traffic on Fillmore Street over Coal Creek.”

Wikipedia article Coal Creek Bridge (Carlisle, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Warren County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1889.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 2404 Fillmore St. over Coal Cr., Carlisle, 50252
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Richland township
  • When was it built? 1889
  • National Register reference number. 98000473 - 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

16 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Coal Creek Bridge between 2014 and 2018, burning about 98 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Coal Creek Bridge: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite
Stevens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this property

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlisle, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlisle5 hurt, $20,000School bus overturned by wind gust.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$100,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$50,000no account filed
July 1998FloodCarlisle$25,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$15,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$10,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$5,000High winds caused tree damage in Carlisle.
April 2006HailCarlisle$5,000no account filed
June 2005HailCarlisle$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailCarlisle$5,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$3,000no account filed
July 2003HailCarlisle$3,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCarlisle$2,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCarlisle-Trained spotter report measured wind gust using hand-held anemometer.
June 2011Heavy RainCarlisle-Ponded water a few inches deep was over portions of the road on SE Avon Road in Carlisle.
June 2024Funnel CloudCarlisle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Palmyra Methodist Episcopal Church4.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000473 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Warren CountyAll 13 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.
  • 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.