Bellefountain Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Mahaska 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. Ashland Ave. over Des Moines R., Tracy, 50219
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. Scott township
Architect. Clinton Bridge Company
National Register reference number. 98000506 - 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 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bellefountain Bridge: 8 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Durham Pelletizing Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Oskaloosa Clay Products Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Durham Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Durham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Server Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Battistello	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dingeman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Harvey Pit #151	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Llyed Barnes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mahaska 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Vander Wilt Farmstead Historic District	4.3 miles	2004
John K. Voorhees House	4.3 miles	1982
Gary J. and Matilda Vermeer Farmstead	5.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000506 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mahaska County	All 49 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.