Oakland Mills Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Oakland Mills Bridge is a historic structure located in Oakland Mills Park southwest of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The span carried Hickory Road over the Skunk River for 358 feet (109 m).”
Wikipedia article Oakland Mills Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 54 National Register listings published here for Henry 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Co. Rd. W55 over Skunk R., Oakland Mills State Park, 52641
When was it listed? May 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. Tippecanoe township
Architect. Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.
National Register reference number. 98000525 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Mills Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Rome Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Henry County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Smith Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Paton and Hannah Wilson House	2.9 miles	2010
Mount Pleasant Public Library	3.0 miles	1983
Camp Harlan-Camp McKean Historic District	3.7 miles	2013
Dr. J. O. and Catherine Ball House	3.8 miles	1994
City Hall	4.0 miles	1991
Masters Building	4.0 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000525 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Henry County	All 54 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.