Ames Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Ames Creek Bridge is a historic structure located northeast of DeWitt, Iowa, United States in rural Clinton County. It is an early example of concrete bridge design prior to the codification of standards by the state highway commission.”
Wikipedia article Ames Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Clinton County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 300th St. over Ames Cr., De Witt, 52742
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. DeWitt township
National Register reference number. 98000802 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ames Creek Bridge: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Behr Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Piggott Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barbers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Scott Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Iowa Mutual Insurance Company Home Office	2.3 miles	2024
Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank	7.3 miles	2001
Grand Mound Town Hall and Waterworks Historic District	7.4 miles	2001
Dugan's Saloon	7.8 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000802 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clinton County	All 33 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.
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.