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Monsrud Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Allamakee County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

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. Swebakken Rd. over Paint Cr., Waterville, 52170
  • When was it listed? June 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Paint Creek township
  • National Register reference number. 98000771 - 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

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Monsrud Bridge between 2009 and 2016, burning about 162 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
26 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesGERALD CLYMER 1184 SHERMAN RIDGE RD.
19 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 March 2016Debris and open burning35 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesWAUKON AREA FIRE PROT. DIST.

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Monsrud Bridge: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWaterville$1,500no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWaterville-The public reported a large tree snapped at the base.
December 2015Heavy RainWaterville-A spotter reported 3.71 inches of rain. Dorchester ended up with 3.27 inches.
June 2009HailWaterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allamakee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
West Paint Creek Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery3.3 miles2019
Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church4.2 miles1983
Yellow River State Forest Fire Tower5.8 miles2021
Fred W. Meier Round Barn7.6 miles1986
Red Bridge7.9 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000771 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Allamakee CountyAll 21 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.