Ellsworth Ranch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“Ellsworth Ranch Bridge is a truss bridge located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Armstrong in rural Emmet County, Iowa, United States. The Emmet County Board of Supervisors received a petition in January 1895 for a bridge across the East Fork of the Des Moines River in Lincoln Township.”
Wikipedia article Ellsworth Ranch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Emmet 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. 130th St., over E fork of Des Moines R., Armstrong, 50531
When was it listed? July 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
Township. Lincoln township
Architect. King Bridge Company
National Register reference number. 98000869 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ellsworth Ranch Bridge in 2006, burning about 14 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/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ellsworth Ranch Bridge: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dolliver Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kossuth County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armstrong, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$100,000	A 66 foot by 76 foot barn, 50 feet high, was destroyed by high winds. A grain bin was blown off its concrete pad. Debris, grass, and corn was blown across the highway.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$75,000	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Armstrong	$50,000	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$25,000	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Armstrong	$20,000	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$10,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$5,000	Law enforcement reported winds over Iowa Lake, north of Armstrong, estimated at 60 to 65 MPH. Pea size hail also.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$3,000	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Armstrong	$3,000	no account filed
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$2,000	Tree damage reported by the public.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$2,000	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Armstrong	$2,000	no account filed
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Armstrong	$2,000	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Armstrong	$1,000	no account filed
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Armstrong	-	Emergency manager reported heavy rainfall of 2 to 3 inches.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Armstrong	-	A trained spotter reported a measurement of 4.25 inches of rain.
August 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Armstrong	-	A tornado formed and touched down briefly over Iowa Lake.
June 2013	Hail	Armstrong	-	no account filed
June 2013	Funnel Cloud	Armstrong	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Armstrong	-	no account filed
June 2010	Flood	Armstrong	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Armstrong	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Armstrong	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Armstrong	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 98000869 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet County	All 3 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.