Kettle River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Kettle River Bridge is a Pratt truss bridge that carries State Highway 123 over the Kettle River in Sandstone, Minnesota. It is adjacent to the former Kettle River Sandstone Company Quarry, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and about a mile upstream of Federal Correctional Institution, Sandstone.”
Wikipedia article Kettle River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Pine County · listed in 1998 · 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. MN 123 over Kettle R., Sandstone, 55072
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. structure
Also known as. Iron and Steel Bridges in Minnesota MPS
City. Sandstone city
National Register reference number. 98000687 - 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

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Kettle River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 were 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
Debris and open burning	71
Arson/incendiarism	40
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Pine County

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandstone, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	A photo was received showing numerous uprooted trees and several downed power lines.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	Several 3 to 5 inch diameter trees were broken by the storm.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	A ten inch diameter tree was broken by the storm.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	A tree was knocked down by the wind.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Sandstone	-	The Pine County Sheriff's Office reported Ash Avenue in Sandstone, MN, near the park, was under 4 to 5 feet of water.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	Downed trees also brought down power lines.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	A large tree was uprooted.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	Trees were blown down.
September 2002	Hail	Sandstone	-	The hail lasted 30 minutes.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down many trees and power lines from the Sandstone area south to near Pine City. Wind speed is estimated.
June 2024	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandstone	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Sandstone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pine 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
Kettle River Sandstone Company Quarry	0.4 miles	1991
Hinckley Fire Relief House	0.4 miles	1980
Sandstone School	0.4 miles	1979
Minneapolis Trust Company Commercial Building	0.5 miles	1980
Partridge Township Hall	5.5 miles	1980
Bethlehem Lutheran Church	5.5 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000687 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pine County	All 22 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.
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.