Photograph of Salisbury Bridge — Photograph by McGhiever, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bridge No. 90980

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Meeker County · listed in 1997 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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. 190 over the N fork of Crow River, Kingston Township, Forest City
When was it listed? January 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS
Township. Forest City township
National Register reference number. 96001560 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bridge No. 90980 in 2000, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	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
18 September 2000	Natural	7.1 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Meeker 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 Bridge No. 90980: 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
	Nussbaum Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Meeker County

Storms near this property

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest City	-	Delayed report, time estimated from radar. Two trees were down across roads.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Forest City	-	Several trees were blown down near Forest City.
June 2005	Hail	Forest City	-	Hail up to the size of quarters fell on Highway 24. A car was dented by the hail.
March 2005	Hail	Forest City	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Forest City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meeker 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
	Henry Ames House	6.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001560 in Record Group 79.
Meeker County	All 10 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.