Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge is a reinforced concrete through arch bridge over the Little Cottonwood River in Cambria Township, Minnesota, United States. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Blue Earth 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. CR 101 over Little Cottonwood River, Courtland, 56073
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. structure
Also known as. Blue Earth County MRA
Township. Cambria township
Architect. Marsh Engineering Company
National Register reference number. 80001953 - 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge between 2003 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	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
6 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 October 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Blue Earth 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 Marsh Concrete Rainbow Arch Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	New Ulm Quartzite Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Blue Earth 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

1 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
	Jones-Roberts Farmstead	7.6 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001953 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blue Earth County	All 28 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.