Waterford Bridge

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Waterford Bridge, formerly designated Bridge L0327 and now Bridge L3275, is a historic steel truss bridge over the Cannon River in Waterford Township, Minnesota, United States. It was constructed in 1909 and is one of the state's earliest surviving bridges to use rigid rather than pinned connections.”
Wikipedia article Waterford Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Dakota County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure · built in 1909.

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. Canada Ave over Cannon River, Minnesota, 55057
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. structure
Also known as. Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS
Township. Waterford township
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 10000580 - 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Waterford Bridge between 2001 and 2012, burning about 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
13 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CEDAR AVENUE
23 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BASS POND 4
1 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	STOLAF
20 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BLACK DOG
29 November 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SORENSON LANDING 1

Every fire recorded in Dakota County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Waterford Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Shilling Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dakota 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
	District No. 72 School	0.8 miles	1979
	Christiania Lutheran Free Church	7.6 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000580 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dakota County	All 40 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.