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Zumbro Parkway Bridge

Built in 1937 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Zumbro Parkway Bridge is a historic arch bridge with two 25-foot (7.6 m) spans over a tributary of the Zumbro River just outside the city of Zumbro Falls in Hyde Park Township, Minnesota, United States. It was constructed in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration using a modular corrugated iron product known as Multi Plate, and given a masonry veneer with Gothic Revival details.”

Wikipedia article Zumbro Parkway Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wabasha County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · built in 1937, Gothic Revival.

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. Co. Rd. 68 over Zumbro River, Zumbro Falls, 55991
  • When was it listed? November 1989
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Minnesota Masonry-Arch Highway Bridges MPS
  • City. Zumbro Falls city
  • When was it built? 1937
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 89001824 - 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

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Zumbro Parkway Bridge in 1995, burning under an acre 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
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 July 1995Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Wabasha 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 Zumbro Parkway Bridge: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oelkers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Roberson Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wabasha County

Storms near this property

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zumbro Falls, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 flood, 4 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2010FloodZumbro Falls$5,200,000Major flooding occurred in the town of Zumbro Falls as the Zumbro River rose to record levels. Of the 95 homes in the town, 60 were affected by flood waters. Businesses in the downtown area also saw damages, while propane tanks were seen floating around. The entire town was evacuated, while power, water and septic systems were down for days. The rainfall as of 5:30 a.m. CST on the 23rd amounted to 6.37 inches.
September 2010FloodZumbro Falls$3,500,000Locally heavy rains pushed the Zumbro River in Zumbro Falls out of its banks starting on September 23rd. The river gage failed during the flooding and the river is estimated to have returned to within it banks on the 27th. The crest was determined by an USGS survey to have been 35.8 feet, which exceeded the flood stage by almost 18 feet. This crest also established a new flood of record. Numerous homes were heavily damaged or destroyed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$560,000no account filed
August 2007FloodZumbro Falls$250,000Law enforcement officials reported some roads washed out or still under water. Highways 60 and 63 remained closed.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Zumbro Falls$95,000This tornado touched down north of Zumbro Falls and ripped the roof off a mobile home residence, also damaging nearby and heavily damaging a barn on 363rd Avenue. It continued for another 1.5 miles northeast across mostly rural areas and causing sporadic tree damage before dissipating.
June 1998Flash FloodZumbro Falls$55,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$55,000no account filed
March 1998HailZumbro Falls$50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$40,000no account filed
July 2024HailZumbro Falls$34,000Local fire and rescue reported golf ball sized hail near Zumbro Falls.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$27,000no account filed
September 2018Flash FloodZumbro Falls$15,000Runoff from heavy rain caused flooding to occur across portions of Wabasha County. Water was over parts of State Highway 60 and some secondary roads had washouts.
August 2007FloodZumbro Falls$15,000The Zumbro River reached a crest of 21.76 feet, forcing the closure of Highways 60 and 63 for a time. Flood stage is 18.0 feet.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$5,000An estimated 70 mph wind gust occurred in Zumbro Falls. Power outages were reported in town.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$1,500no account filed
October 2018Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$1,000Large tree branches were blown down near Zumbro Falls. One of these branches landed on a power line.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$1,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$700no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls$500no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls-Local fire and rescue in Zumbro Falls estimated a wind gust to 60 mph.
March 2019FloodZumbro Falls-Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Zumbro River out of its banks in Zumbro Falls. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 22.08 feet on March 15th.
June 2019FloodZumbro Falls-Runoff from heavy rains pushed the Zumbro River out of its banks in Zumbro Falls. The river crested just over nine feet above the flood stage at 27.03 feet on June 29th.
July 2019FloodZumbro Falls-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Zumbro River out of its banks in Zumbro Falls. The river crested almost two feet above the flood stage at 19.71 feet on the 21st.
July 2019FloodZumbro Falls-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Zumbro River out of its banks in Zumbro Falls. The river crested around a half foot above the flood stage at 18.59 feet on the 7th.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls-An estimated 80 mph wind gust occurred in Zumbro Falls.
September 2016FloodZumbro Falls-Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Zumbro River out of its banks in Zumbro Falls. The river crested over four feet above the flood stage at 22.22 feet.
March 2013FloodZumbro Falls-Runoff from snow melt pushed the Zumbro River out of its banks near Zumbro Falls. The river crested almost a foot and a half above the flood stage at 19.3 feet.
April 2013FloodZumbro Falls-Flooding that began in late March along the Zumbro River at Zumbro Falls ended on the 1st. This flooding closed County Road 68 just southeast of Zumbro Falls.
March 2011FloodZumbro Falls-The combination of rainfall and melting snow pushed the Zumbro River at Zumbro Falls out of its banks. The river exceeded the flood stage from the 23rd into the 24th. The river crested at less than a foot over the flood stage at 18.69 feet.
July 2008HailZumbro Falls-no account filed
March 2007FloodZumbro Falls-no account filed
June 2002HailZumbro Falls-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindZumbro Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabasha 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Bridge No. 5827-Zumbro Falls0.3 miles1998
Bear Valley Grange Hall3.2 miles1989
Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant5.4 miles1991
Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant5.4 miles1991
Walnut Street Bridge6.2 miles2003
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church6.7 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001824 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wabasha CountyAll 26 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.