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Photograph of Twin Bridge
Photograph by Joseph Elliott, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Twin Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Fayette 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. 130th St. over Little Volga R., Fayette, 52164
  • When was it listed? June 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Center township
  • National Register reference number. 98000779 - 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

11 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Twin Bridge between 2009 and 2015, burning about 45 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning1

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
18 April 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources(DEB OPPERMAN) 10389 130TH ST., FAYETTE, I
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources12682 152ND ST., FAYETTE, IA, IOWA

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Twin Bridge: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fayette Sand and Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vogts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Zupke Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ashby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fayette-Templeton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maynard QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yearous QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayette, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1994HailFayette$50,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindFayette$25,000Trees were blown down and roofs were blown off buildings in the central part of Fayette County.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFayette$12,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindFayette$10,000Trees were uprooted and some property damage was reported on the Upper Iowa University campus in Fayette.
July 2009HailFayette$10,000Large hail was reported along Highway 150.
April 2000HailFayette$5,000no account filed
May 2000HailFayette$3,500no account filed
April 2000HailFayette$2,500no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindFayette$2,000A shed was rolled over in Fayette.
March 2020Funnel CloudFayette-A funnel cloud was sighted near Fayette. This was likely the remnants of the Maynard tornado.
July 2017Heavy RainFayette-Near Fayette, 7.67 inches of rain fell.
April 2014HailFayette-Quarter to walnut sized hail fell in the city of Fayette.
April 2013Heavy RainFayette-The COOP observer near Fayette reported 2.04 inches of rain.
July 2011Heavy RainFayette-The COOP observer in Fayette reported a total of 4.43 inches of rain at 6 a.m.
August 2011FloodFayette-Water six to eight inches deep covered some streets in Fayette. The thunderstorms dumped 2.76 inches of rain in a very short time to produce the flooding.
July 2009HailFayette-Very heavy rain also occurred.
May 2015HailFayette-no account filed
May 2004HailFayette-no account filed
May 2003HailFayette-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindFayette-no account filed
April 2002HailFayette-no account filed
August 2000HailFayette-no account filed
May 1999HailFayette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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

4 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
College Hall3.2 miles1976
Maynard Town Hall and Jail4.0 miles1997
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Depot4.8 miles1978
Stoe Creek Bridge7.6 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000779 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fayette CountyAll 29 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.