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Nishnabotna River Bridge

Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Mills County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1930.

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. Co. Rd. M16 over Nishnabotna R., Henderson, 51540
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Anderson township
  • When was it built? 1930
  • National Register reference number. 98000496 - 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

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Henderson, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2007FloodHenderson$20,000Heavy rainfall over the weekend of May 4th through the 6th, caused the West Nishnabotna River and its tributaries to flood several county roads in Mills county prompting their closure. See Pottawattamie county for specifics of the West Nishnabotna River at Hancock.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHenderson-Emergency Management relayed a report of down powerlines and limbs on cars in the town of Henderson.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHenderson-A 62 miles per hour wind gust was recorded on a personal weather station.
April 2023HailHenderson-Public reported 2-inch hail via mPING.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindHenderson-A mesonet station recorded a peak wind gust of 70 mph.
June 2022HailHenderson-Broadcast media relayed a report of larger than quarter sized hail.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Henderson-A short-lived tornado developed on a farm where it quickly destroyed a metal building structure, flipping two trucks that were parked inside the building. The roof was flipped off of the structure and debris was distributed to the northeast. The tornado then impacted and snapped several wood power poles but did not cause any additional significant or highly focused damage.
April 2018HailHenderson-Nickel to golf ball size hail was reported southeast of Henderson.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHenderson-A barn was blown down near 380th and Brothers Ave.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHenderson-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph downed 3 to 4 inch in diameter tree limbs.
July 2008Funnel CloudHenderson-A high based non-supercell thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud that was estimated to have been east of Glenwood but also seen from several other surrounding comunities. The funnel did not apparently touch down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHenderson-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph broke off numerous tree limbs southwest of Henderson.
September 2001HailHenderson-Some crop damage was reported.
May 2000HailHenderson-Reported by the public.
October 2001HailHenderson-no account filed
September 2001HailHenderson-no account filed
September 2001HailHenderson-no account filed
September 2001HailHenderson-no account filed
September 1999HailHenderson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mills 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 98000496 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mills CountyAll 2 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.