BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Coon Rapids Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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. Sumpter Ave. over Middle Raccoon R., Coon Rapids, 50058
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
- Township. Union township
- National Register reference number. 98000745 - 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
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Coon Rapids Bridge between 2007 and 2009, burning about 16 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/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Coon Rapids Bridge: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| H B Jenel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| P. Brutsche | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Viola Hart | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Williams Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
39 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coon Rapids, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 heavy rain, 3 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | Flash Flood | Coon Rapids | $100,000 | Emergency Manager reported water over Highway 141 near Coon Rapids, and that it is not a place that normally flash floods. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Coon Rapids | $75,000 | Water over Highway 141 west of Coon Rapids. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Coon Rapids | $50,000 | Water was over A Avenue along the Guthrie/Carroll County line. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $50,000 | Strong winds blew a barn over. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Coon Rapids | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $20,000 | Measurement was taken by the Coon Rapids Bayard Schoolnet site. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Coon Rapids | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Coon Rapids | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Coon Rapids | $10,000 | Telephone poles were down as a result of the tornado. The tornado moved from Carroll County into Greene County. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Coon Rapids | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $2,000 | Large limbs down across the town of Coon Rapids. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Coon Rapids | $100 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | - | Personal weather station gust to 60 mph. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | Trained spotter reported nickel sized hail west of Coon Rapids. Location estimated by radar. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | A 24 hour rain total of 3.80 inches. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | Public report of quarter to ping pong ball sized hail. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.30 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Coop observer recorded heavy rainfall of 3.20 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Coop observer reported heavy rainfall of 2.9 inches. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Official NWS observation from Coon Rapids LARC of 3.2 inches of heavy rainfall from approximately 8pm to 9pm. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Official NWS Observation from the Coon Rapids LARC of 4.7 inches of heavy rainfall over the last 2 hours. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Mesonet site recorded heavy storm total rainfall of 5.70 inches. End time based on observations. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Coon Rapids | - | Rainfall of 5.2 inches in past few hours. |
| December 2021 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Coon Rapids | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armour Creameries Poultry House | 0.4 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000745 in Record Group 79. |
| Carroll County | All 20 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.