Minerva Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Marshall 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. Co. Rd. S52 over Minerva Cr., Clemons, 50051
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. Liberty township
National Register reference number. 98000497 - 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

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Minerva Creek Bridge between 2006 and 2018, burning about 25 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/undetermined	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
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Minerva Creek Bridge: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Clemons Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Humphreys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lacy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clemons, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2013	Flash Flood	Clemons	$25,000	Minerva Creek out of its banks and flooding 50 acres near 148th and S52. Water approaching the bridge. Gravel road 155th was under water.
May 2018	Hail	Clemons	$5,000	Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail and small branches down between Saint Anthony and Clemons.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clemons	$5,000	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Clemons	$5,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Clemons	$3,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clemons	$2,000	no account filed
July 2018	Funnel Cloud	Clemons	-	Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud.
May 2013	Funnel Cloud	Clemons	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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 98000497 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marshall County	All 18 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.