Built in 1932. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“The Savanna-Sabula Bridge was a truss bridge and causeway crossing the Mississippi River that connected the city of Savanna, Illinois, with the island city of Sabula, Iowa. The bridge was put out of service on November 17, 2017, when its replacement, which lies a few dozen feet downstream, opened as the Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge.”
Wikipedia article Savanna-Sabula Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 77 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1932.
National Register reference number.99001033- 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
15 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Savanna-Sabula Bridge
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Arson/incendiarism
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
12 June 1992
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Savanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
ISLAND 199
1 May 2013
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4.1 acres
Savanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
SETBACK LEVEE
6 April 2004
Arson/incendiarism
7.0 acres
Savanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
GOOSEPOINT
5 April 2004
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Savanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
ESMAY SLOUGH
28 April 2018
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Illinois Division of Forestry Resources
35
23 April 2018
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Illinois Division of Forestry Resources
31
23 April 2009
Debris and open burning
2.0 acres
Savanna District, Upper Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Savanna-Sabula Bridge: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Sabula, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 flash flood.
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.
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
2 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.
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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