Hanover Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Hanover Bridge is a historic metal pin-connected Pratt through truss bridge spanning the Crow River in Hanover, Minnesota, United States, on the border of Wright and Hennepin Counties. It is the second-oldest Pratt truss bridge remaining in Minnesota.”
Wikipedia article Hanover Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wright County · listed in 1979 · 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. Off Co. Hwy. 19 over Crow River, Hanover, 55341
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Wright County MRA
National Register reference number. 79001268 - 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hanover Bridge between 2000 and 2013, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
15 November 2013	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 October 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Wright County

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 Hanover Bridge: 3 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Barthel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bursch Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Giese Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wright County

Storms near this property

17 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Hanover	$500,000	One home lost part of its roof, and others lost shingles. Several homes had windows blown in. Several dozen trees and a number of power poles were broken or knocked down. Siding and soffits were ripped off a few houses. Numerous backyard fences were blown over. A pole barn was lifted up about three feet before being set back down. The tornado was photographed and videotaped by several people. The condensation funnel was not fully extended, and the debris cloud never extended as high as the condensation funnel. The tornado was a marginal EF-1, with winds near 90 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanover	$100,000	A storm survey revealed that damaging straight line winds caused an area of transmission lines to blow down south of St. Michael near County Road 15, east to the Hennepin County line.
August 2020	Hail	Hanover	$50,000	There were a few reports of large hail, the largest measuring golf ball size, occurred west of Hanover, to the community of Hanover, and moved eastward over the Wright, Hennepin County line.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanover	-	Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 65 mph snapped a large snapped way up its trunk.
August 2020	Hail	Hanover	-	There was likely severe hail east into Hennepin County but the time of night and rural area kept reports minimal.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanover	-	Several trees were snapped and uprooted west of Hanover.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanover	-	A 20 inch diameter tree was snapped southwest of Hanover.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanover	-	Several trees were blown down between Greenfield and Hanover.
September 2005	Hail	Hanover	-	Dime sized hail covered the ground. Moderate crop damage was reported in the area.
May 2025	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
July 2016	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
September 2007	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
September 2005	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Hanover	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
	Church of St. Michael-Catholic	4.0 miles	1979
	Albertville Roller Mill	5.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001268 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wright County	All 22 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.