Le Grand Bridge

Built in 1896. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Tama County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1896.

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. Abbot Ave. over Iowa R., Le Grand, 50158
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
When was it built? 1896
National Register reference number. 98000481 - 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

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Le Grand Bridge between 1996 and 2018, burning about 910 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	6

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	SETTLE-1 M
9 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	180 WEST VILLAGE
6 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sac and Fox Agency	206 WEST VILLAGE
5 April 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	191 WEST VILLAGE
5 April 2004	Debris and open burning	400 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	MESQ4
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	1454 HW 30
29 April 2004	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	MESQ3 TVFD
28 April 2013	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Sac and Fox Agency	FENCE

Every fire recorded in Tama County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Le Grand Bridge: 13 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Legrand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Olson Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ruth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ash Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fisher Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Le Grand Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Montour Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rockton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tama 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 98000481 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tama County	All 14 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.