Edward's Ford Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Edward's Ford Bridge, also known as Bridge #17, is a historic stone arch bridge located on the grounds of Jefferson Proving Ground in Campbell Township, Jennings County, Indiana. It was built in 1911, and is a three-span, round arch bridge.”
Wikipedia article Edward's Ford Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Jennings County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. US Army Jefferson Proving Ground, off Northwest Rd., Nebraska, 47223
When was it listed? July 1996
Category. structure
Township. Campbell township
National Register reference number. 96000788 - 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

29 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Edward's Ford Bridge between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,961 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Firearms and explosives use	2
Debris and open burning	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
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	280 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	K ROAD FIRE
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 9 FIRE
6 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 3 FIRE
28 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 5 FIRE
26 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 4 FIRE
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE FIRE
16 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	SHUNK FARM FIRE
10 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	SHRAPNEL FOUR FIRE

Every fire recorded in Jennings County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edward's Ford Bridge: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fluorite Occurrence Number 1	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
	Fluorite Occurrence Number 1	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jennings County

Storms near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nebraska, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2017	Flood	Nebraska	$7,000	State Road 50 was closed at the Jennings and Ripley County line due to heavy rainfall. A semi-truck was stuck in high water.

Every storm recorded in Jennings 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Benville Bridge	3.7 miles	1996
	Hicklin House and Settlement	6.0 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000788 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jennings County	All 10 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.