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Bridge No. 5827-Zumbro Falls
Built in 1938. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
From the record
“Bridge 5827 is a historic arch bridge in Zumbro Falls, Minnesota, United States, built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration using a modular corrugated iron product called Multi Plate. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Bridge No. 5827-Zumbro Falls in 1998 for having state-level significance in the theme of engineering.”
Wikipedia article Bridge 5827, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Wabasha County · listed in 1998 · category: Structure · built in 1938.
Also known as. Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS
City. Zumbro Falls city
When was it built? 1938
National Register reference number.98000684- 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 Bridge No. 5827-Zumbro Falls
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
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Bridge No. 5827-Zumbro Falls: 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.
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.
Major 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.
Locally 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.
This 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.
Runoff 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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