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Photograph of Red Bridge
Photograph by Bruce A. Harms, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Red 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Fuel Hollow Rd. over Yellow R., Postville, 52156
  • When was it listed? June 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Franklin township
  • National Register reference number. 98000773 - 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

22 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Red Bridge between 2009 and 2020, burning about 282 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 May 2014Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Recreation and ceremony25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Recreation and ceremony15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesINTERSECTION OF YELLOW RIVER DRIVE AND FOREST MILL
26 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Allamakee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Red Bridge: 5 producers, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. 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
Carlson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doerring QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gisleson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mohs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Swenson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Allamakee County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Postville, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindPostville$50,000no account filed
June 2024FloodPostville$35,000Significant rainfall later into June pushed the Little Cedar River at Ionia into flood stage on June 24th. The river stage crested around midnight on June 25th in minor flood stage at 17.26 ft.
August 2007FloodPostville$25,000Heavy rainfall caused flooding of basements, which may have indirectly contributed to the death of man in Postville. He was electricuted from entering a flooded basement with live power.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPostville$8,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPostville$6,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPostville$5,000Trees were blown down and the power knocked out in Postville.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPostville$5,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindPostville$5,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindPostville$3,000Power lines were blown down in Postville.
June 2005LightningPostville$3,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPostville$2,500no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPostville$2,000Trees and a power line were blown down in Postville.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPostville$2,000Trees were blown down in Postville.
August 1999HailPostville$2,000no account filed
May 2000HailPostville$1,500no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPostville$1,000no account filed
April 2026HailPostville-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail in Postville.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPostville-Trees were reported down in the Yellow River area. Large amounts of dust and dirt were kicked up as well.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPostville-A 59 mph gust was measured near Postville.
June 2014Flash FloodPostville-Runoff from heavy rain caused the Yellow River to go out of its banks between Postville and Waukon.
April 2002HailPostville-no account filed
April 2002HailPostville-no account filed
May 1999HailPostville-no account filed
June 1998HailPostville-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

2 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
Fred W. Meier Round Barn7.6 miles1986
Monsrud Bridge7.9 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000773 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.