Squaw Creek Bridge

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Boone County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1917, by James Barney Marsh.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · 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. 120th St. and V Ave. over Squaw Cr., Ridgeport, 50595
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
When was it built? 1917
Architect. James Barney Marsh
National Register reference number. 98000763 - 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.

Storms near this property

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeport, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 4 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2008	Flood	Ridgeport	$100,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flood	Ridgeport	$100,000	no account filed
July 2010	Flash Flood	Ridgeport	$50,000	Intersection of County Highways R27 and E18 closed due to flooding. Over a foot of water was reported flowing over a gravel road in the same area. Four to 5 inches of rainfall has been measured.
April 2008	Flood	Ridgeport	$10,000	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Ridgeport	$3,000	Law Enforcement reports up to quarter size hail at the intersection of E18 and Nature Road.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Ridgeport	-	This was a short-lived tornado that formed on the leading edge of a QLCS. It stayed in rural areas and caused some minor crop and tree damage, but did not cause any known damage to structures.
August 2015	Heavy Rain	Ridgeport	-	City of Ames alert station reported heavy rainfall of 5.60 inches since 5am.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Ridgeport	-	Rainfall of 1.75 inches was measured in the past 24 hours.
August 2010	Flood	Ridgeport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000763 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boone County	All 19 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.
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.