Seville Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Seville Bridge is one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This particular one is located across the Spoon River in Seville.”
Wikipedia article Seville Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1980 · 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. Spans Spoon River in Seville, Seville, 61477
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County TR
Township. Cass township
National Register reference number. 80001359 - 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.

The ground it stands on

9,894 words

This property stands in Cass Township. History of Fulton County, Illinois;, published 1879 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Cass Township - 9,894 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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
April 2023	Hail	Seville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Tartar's Ferry Bridge	2.8 miles	1980
Buckeye Bridge	3.6 miles	1980
Bernadotte Bridge	5.8 miles	1980
Babylon Bend Bridge	6.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001359 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 38 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.
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.