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Grace City Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Grace City Bridge near Grace City, North Dakota, also known as the James River Bridge, is a Pratt through truss structure that was built in 1925 over the James River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”

Wikipedia article Grace City Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Foster County · listed in 1997 · 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. Across the James River, unnamed co. rd., 1 mi. SW of Grace City, Grace City, 58445
  • When was it listed? February 1997
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Roadway Bridges of North Dakota MPS
  • Township. Larrabee township
  • National Register reference number. 97000174 - 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

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Grace City Bridge between 1994 and 2018, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 May 2018Debris and open burning7.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGENE MILLER PIT FIRE
3 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLONGVIEW TWNSHP GRASS FIRE
21 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Totten Agencynot named
27 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceEASTER FIRE
12 November 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMILLER FIRE

Every fire recorded in Foster County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grace City, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGrace City$500,000Structural, tree, and crop damage occurred in and around Grace City.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Grace City$300,000The tornado touched down to the southwest of Grace City, then tracked northeasterly approximately five and three-quarter miles before lifting. Near the point of touchdown, the tornado struck a farmstead causing significant damage. A barn which was built with brick about half-way up then built with wood and sheet metal had the top wooden and sheet metal portion torn off, while an adjacent silo had its top blown off. A pole barn had its roof blown off and another barn had its doors blown off. The tornado then progressed through open fields until it moved through a shelterbelt at a farmstead near the end of its path, where it broke many trees, and twisted off large branches. It also took one large branch and speared it into a camper. Across the road the tornado broke down power lines before it broke in the large door and tore a significant portion off one of the Foster County shop buildings housing a maintainer. Based on the damage done this tornado was rated EF-1, and from that wind speeds were estimated to be around 110 mph.
August 1997HailGrace City-Hail covered ground
August 2021HailGrace City-no account filed
September 2020Thunderstorm WindGrace City-no account filed
August 2016HailGrace City-no account filed
June 2015HailGrace City-no account filed
July 2011HailGrace City-no account filed
July 2007HailGrace City-no account filed
July 2007HailGrace City-no account filed
August 2001Funnel CloudGrace City-no account filed
August 2001HailGrace City-no account filed
August 1996HailGrace City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Foster 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000174 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Foster CountyAll 6 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.