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Photograph of Nishnabotna River Bridge
Photograph by Joe Elliott, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Nishnabotna River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Nishnabotna River Bridge is located southwest of Manilla, Iowa, United States. It carries traffic on 310th Street over the Nishnabotna River.”

Wikipedia article Nishnabotna River Bridge (310th Street), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 1999 · 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. 310th St. between X and Y Aves., Manilla, 51454
  • When was it listed? March 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
  • Township. Nishnabotny township
  • Architect. H. Gene McKeown & Assoc.
  • National Register reference number. 99000309 - 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

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Nishnabotna River Bridge between 2007 and 2014, burning about 16 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Smoking2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manilla, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Thunderstorm WindManilla$25,000no account filed
April 2002HailManilla$20,000no account filed
May 1998HailManilla$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000Emergency manager reported damage to an outbuilding.
May 2017HailManilla$5,000Emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail in the city of Manilla.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindManilla$3,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$2,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$2,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindManilla$1,000Emergency manager reported a snapped light pole and a tree down in Manilla. Time estimated from radar.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailManilla-Report of up to quarter sized hail.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Manilla-Brief touchdown in open country.
May 2005HailManilla-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.

Listed places nearby

3 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
Klondike Hotel2.3 miles1996
Nishnabotna River Bridge5.4 miles1998
Buck Grove Bridge6.7 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000309 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.
  • 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.