Eisenhower Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Van Buren 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. 3 miles E. of Co. Rd. V56, Milton, 52570
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. Jackson township
National Register reference number. 98000478 - 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.

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milton, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	$50,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	$40,000	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	$4,000	Sheriff department reported power lines down on county route V56.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	$1,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	-	Young June corn flattened in an area around Milton.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Milton	-	Law enforcement reported a tornado that briefly touched down 2 times in a short period, and then lifted quickly. No damage reported.
June 2014	Hail	Milton	-	A trained spotter reported penny size hail fell for 6 minutes.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed near Milton, IA at 755 pm CDT June 26.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some trees in Milton, IA at 755 pm CDT June 26.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Milton	-	To be determined.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	-	Two power poles were blown down across Highway 2 about three miles west of Cantril. Winds were estimated at 75 mph.
December 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Milton	-	Law enforcement reported a machine shed blown down.
March 2024	Hail	Milton	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Milton	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Milton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wickfield Round Barn	5.0 miles	1986
Lacey-Keosauqua State Park, Lodge and Picnic Area (Area A)	7.1 miles	1990
Lacey-Keosauqua State Park, Bathing Area (Area C)	8.0 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000478 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren County	All 23 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.
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.