Intercity Bridge

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Intercity Bridge, more commonly known as the Ford Parkway Bridge, is a reinforced concrete arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. It connects 46th Street in Minneapolis with Ford Parkway in Saint Paul.”
Wikipedia article Intercity Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 134 National Register listings published here for Ramsey County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · built in 1927.

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. Ford Pkwy. over Mississippi River, St. Paul, 55406
When was it listed? November 1989
Category. structure
Also known as. Reinforced-Concrete Highway Bridges in Minnesota MPS
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 89001838 - 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Intercity Bridge between 1999 and 2011, burning about 215 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
20 July 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LML
19 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	YOUTH
14 April 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 April 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
30 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	EAGAN ASSIST
30 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge	L MEADOW 1

Every fire recorded in Ramsey 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 Intercity Bridge: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay. 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
	Twin City Brick Co Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Twin City Brick Co. Clay Pit	Kaolin	Producer	Kaolinite

Every working recorded in Ramsey 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Frederick Spangenberg House	1.0 miles	1976
Derham Hall and Our Lady of Victory Chapel, College of St. Catherine	1.1 miles	1985
William and Catherine Davern Farm House	1.7 miles	1983
Fire Station No. 19	1.8 miles	2023
Dr. Ward Beebe House	1.9 miles	1977
Highland Park Tower	1.9 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001838 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ramsey County	All 134 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.