Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“The Washington Mill Bridge is a road bridge crossing Lytle Creek near Bernard, Iowa that was built in 1877-78. It is a bowstring, through arch bridge, manufactured and built by the Massillon Bridge Company.”
Wikipedia article Washington Mill Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 84 National Register listings published here for Dubuque County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.98000788- 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
6 since 2009
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Washington Mill Bridge
between 2009 and 2020, burning about 32 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 burning
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Washington Mill Bridge: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bernard, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew a semi truck off the road at the intersection of Highway 151 and Sundown Rd or about 9 miles west southwest of the Dubuque, IA Regional Airport at 1052 pm April 5.
This is a continuation of the tornado that moved in from Jackson County. Numerous trees suffered damage and outbuildings were destroyed. Roofs were torn off a hog confinement and a manufactured home.
A 0.8 mile long EF-1 tornado with peak estimated wind speed of 95 mph caused damage to trees and a county road maintenance shed in Bernard. This tornado was surrounded by straight line wind damage with winds from 80 to 90 MPH.
A tornado developed just west of Garry Owen in northwest Jackson County, and moved northeast along an intermittent 3 mile path through farm fields, lifting east of Bernard in southern Dubuque County. The tornado caused tree damage, and extensive damage to outbuildings at 4 farmsteads. The tornado was rated EF1, with maximum winds estimated at 90 to 100 mph, and was on the ground for about 6 minutes. There were no injuries. Assistance provided by Dubuque and Jackson County Emergency Management is much appreciated.
The emergency manager reported 4 trailers damaged for destroyed along with widespread tree damage. There was a 100 yard wide and 3/4 mile long path with|50-70 percent of trees blown down or snapped off.
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.
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.
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