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Photograph of Harvey Railroad Bridge
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Harvey Railroad Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Marion 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. Harvey Island Rd., Harvey, 50119
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Lake Prairie township
  • Architect. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
  • National Register reference number. 98000502 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Harvey Railroad Bridge: 11 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Durham Pelletizing PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Oskaloosa Clay Products Co. PitClayPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Durham MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Durham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Groenendyk Mcconville Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Server QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvey, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 4 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Flash FloodHarvey$50,000Six inches of water reported running through the streets of Harvey.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHarvey$30,000A large tree was down on a power line.
June 2015HailHarvey$25,000Public report of measured hailstones around 4 inches in diameter. Photos were on twitter and the KCCI ulocal page. Time radar estimated.
June 2015HailHarvey$20,000Trained spotter report of 3 to 3.5 inch hail as storm passed over his home around 5pm.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindHarvey$15,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHarvey$10,000A large tree limb was down on a power line.
May 1996HailHarvey$10,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHarvey$5,000A few 6 to 10 inch tree limbs were blown down and two power poles were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvey$3,000Four to six inch tree limbs downed by high winds. Also, 2 inches of rain fell in an hour with English Creek out of its banks.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvey$2,000Large trees were blown down in a pasture.
July 2006HailHarvey$2,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHarvey$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHarvey-Delayed report of large trees down and a silo destroyed south of Pella. Time of occurrence estimated by radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHarvey-Relayed report of extensive tree damage in Harvey. Time estimated from radar.
July 2015Heavy RainHarvey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 1.25 inches between 2 and 3 pm.
September 2015Heavy RainHarvey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.25 inches.
July 2015Heavy RainHarvey-Trained spotter reported heavy rainfall of 2.75 inches over the last 24 hours.
April 2013Heavy RainHarvey-Rainfall of 5.25 inches in the past 24 hours.
June 2013Heavy RainHarvey-Rainfall 24 hour total as of 0600 CST was 1.98 inches.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000502 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 29 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.
  • 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.