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Beaver Creek Bridge

Built in 1946. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1946, by H. Gene McKeown & Assoc..

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. 180th St. between B and C Aves. over Beaver Cr., Schleswig, 51461
  • When was it listed? June 1998
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Morgan township
  • When was it built? 1946
  • Architect. H. Gene McKeown & Assoc.
  • National Register reference number. 98000799 - 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Creek Bridge between 2006 and 2017, burning about 601 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
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
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FIRE DEPT.
13 May 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning600 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources3278 FAITH AVE. , IA
22 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beaver Creek Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schleswig, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 4 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSchleswig1 hurt, $5,000no account filed
April 2023HailSchleswig$100,000Delayed report, time estimated by radar. Severely damaged cars with ground covered in hail.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$50,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$40,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$25,000Power poles blown down.
August 2009HailSchleswig$25,000Hail swath of quarter to golf ball size hail.
June 2008Flash FloodSchleswig$25,000Various gravel roads in northern Crawford County were covered with water.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$25,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$20,000Crawford County dispatch reported power lines down. Time radar estimated.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$20,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$20,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$15,000Multiple trees were reported down.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$5,000Power was reported out in town.
July 2003HailSchleswig$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailSchleswig$3,000no account filed
June 1996HailSchleswig$3,000no account filed
August 2009HailSchleswig$2,000no account filed
July 2003HailSchleswig$2,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSchleswig$2,000no account filed
September 2004HailSchleswig$1,000no account filed
April 1999HailSchleswig$1,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSchleswig-US highway 59 blocked due to downed tree and power lines.
May 2019Heavy RainSchleswig-CoCoRaHS observer recorded heavy rainfall of 2.14 inches over the last 24 hours.
August 2017Heavy RainSchleswig-CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 4.64 inches over the last 24 hours.
September 2014Heavy RainSchleswig-Rainfall of 3.06 inches.
June 2008Heavy RainSchleswig-Just over 2 inches of rain in about an hour.
May 2013Funnel CloudSchleswig-no account filed
May 1998HailSchleswig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000799 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford CountyAll 15 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.