Old Appleton Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Old Appleton Bridge is a historic Pratt Truss Iron Bridge located at Old Appleton, Cape Girardeau County and Perry County, Missouri. It was built in 1879, and consists of a wrought iron, pin-connected, Pratt through truss main span, with two pin-connected, three panel Pratt pony-truss approach spans.”
Wikipedia article Old Appleton Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Cape Girardeau County · listed in 2009 · 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. Main St. over Apple Creek, Old Appleton, 63770
When was it listed? August 2009
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 09000648 - 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Old Appleton Bridge in 1996, burning about 1 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
Debris and open burning	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
27 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Old Appleton Bridge: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Old Appelton Quarry and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ponder Diggings	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Ponder Shaft	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Shaft #2	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Shaft #3	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Appleton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2013	Funnel Cloud	Old Appleton	-	The funnel cloud was observed by at least one trained spotter and a sheriff deputy. The sheriff deputy observed the funnel from Interstate 55. A cell phone video was taken at an Interstate 55 exit showing a rope-like funnel cloud.

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000648 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cape Girardeau County	All 63 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.