Des Moines River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Des Moines River Bridge in Humboldt, Iowa was a plate girder bridge built in 1939 located in Humboldt County, Iowa. It carried Iowa Highway 3 over the West Fork of the Des Moines River for 403.2 feet (122.9 m).”
Wikipedia article Des Moines River Bridge (Humboldt, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. IA 3 over West Fork of Des Moines R., Humbodlt, 50548
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. Corinth township
National Register reference number. 98000522 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Des Moines River Bridge: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hodges Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Humboldt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rutland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rutland Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Frank Gotch State Park	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Humboldt Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Humboldt Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Peterson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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

5 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
Berkhimer Bridge	0.6 miles	1998
Stephen Harris Taft House	2.1 miles	2002
Humboldt Free Public Library	2.1 miles	1983
Humboldt County Court House	2.2 miles	2003
Corydon Brown House	3.5 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000522 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt County	All 7 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.