Built in 1865 (Burr Truss). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“The Oquawka Wagon Bridge is a covered bridge located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Oquawka in Henderson County, Illinois. The wooden bridge was built in 1866, replacing an earlier bridge called the Eames Bridge; the bridge structure cost $2,125, while its stone abutments cost $2.40 per perch.”
Wikipedia article Oquawka Wagon Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Henderson County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1865, Burr Truss.
National Register reference number.75000660- 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
3 within 5 miles
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Oquawka Wagon Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Oquawka, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 8 flood, 4 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.
Heavy rain and snow melt across the region caused the Mississippi River at Lock and Dam 18 near Gladestone to to rise above major flood stage of 14 feet on March 17th. The Mississippi River at Burlington Iowa rose above major flood stage on the same day and remained there through the end of the month. The river remained above the major flood stage through the end of the month. An initial crest of 16.31 feet occurred early in the morning on the 24th, into the early morning hours of the 26th.
The Mississippi River Gladstone Lock and Dam 18 rose above its major flood stage of 14 feet during the afternoon of May 19th and continued into June. The river crested in June, with the stage rising to 20.3 feet at the end of May 31st.
The Mississippi River at Gladstone Lock and Dam 18 began the month above its major flood stage of 14 feet. The river stage at the beginning of the month was 17.44 feet. The river would rise to a crest of 1967 feet at 500 AM CST on May 3rd. This crest is preliminarily the 5th highest crest. The river fell below major flood stage around 10 AM on May 15th.
River levels continued to run high during the month of April. Heavy rain across the area caused the Mississippi River at Gladstone Lock and Dam 18 to rise above its major flood stage of 14 feet around midday on the 26th, and the rise continued through the end of the month.
Heavy rainfall of 4 to over 10 inches over significant areas from 21 to 23 September in extreme North Central and Northeast Iowa moved downstream|causing the Mississippi River to rise above major flood stage levels.||The Mississippi River at Gladstone rose above its major flood stage level of 14.0 feet on October 1st, 2016 around 9 AM CST. It crested around 14.54 feet on October 3rd,|2016. It fell below major flood stage on October 5th around 2 AM CST.
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.
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.
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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