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Grand River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Grand River Bridge is a historic structure located east of Arispe, Iowa, United States. It is a 5-panel, 156-foot (48 m), single span, Pratt through truss over the Grand River.”

Wikipedia article Grand River Bridge (Arispe, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

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. 230th St. over Grand R., Arispe, 50254
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Pleasant township
  • National Register reference number. 98000479 - 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

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Grand River Bridge between 2010 and 2015, burning about 130 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
6 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources5154 COUNTY RD. X-64, IOWA
2 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources3030 197TH AFTON, IA, IA

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Grand River Bridge: 4 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
Spring Valley LakeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thayer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bullock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thayer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arispe, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 2007HailArispe$100,000no account filed
June 2010HailArispe$10,000no account filed
June 2011HailArispe$5,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindArispe$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailArispe$2,000no account filed
April 2006HailArispe$2,000no account filed
May 2011HailArispe$1,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindArispe$1,000no account filed
September 2014Heavy RainArispe-Three inches of rainfall.
September 2014Heavy RainArispe-Four inches of rain in the past 2 hours.
February 2014HailArispe-no account filed
March 2011HailArispe-no account filed
June 2010HailArispe-no account filed
June 2010HailArispe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000479 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union CountyAll 6 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.