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Photograph of Gipple's Quarry Bridge
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gipple's Quarry Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Gipple's Quarry Bridge is a historic structure located in a rural area southwest of Columbus Junction, Iowa, United States. The Louisa County Board of Supervisors approved the petition of T.J.”

Wikipedia article Gipple's Quarry Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Louisa County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 100 Blk. V Ave. over Buffington Cr., Columbus Junction, 52738
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Elm Grove township
  • National Register reference number. 98000512 - 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gipple's Quarry Bridge in 2017, burning about 35 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/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Louisa County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gipple's Quarry Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Columbus Junction Underground MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wasson QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Louisa County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Columbus Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindColumbus Junction$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailColumbus Junction$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Louisa 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Columbus Junction School 1882-19205.6 miles1973
County Line Bridge6.6 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000512 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Louisa CountyAll 8 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.