Midway Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Midway Bridge near Johnstown, North Dakota is the only bedstead bridge known to have been built in North Dakota. It appears to have been built locally, not as part of a state or county program, during the 1920-1930 period.”
Wikipedia article Midway Bridge (Johnstown, North Dakota), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Grand Forks 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Across an unnamed creek, unnamed co. rd., approximately 1.5 mi. S and 2 mi. W of Johnstown, Johnstown, 58233
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Roadway Bridges of North Dakota MPS
Township. Strabane township
National Register reference number. 97000176 - 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Midway Bridge in 2018, burning about 2 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 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
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BURN BANNED 1

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnstown, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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
June 2000	Flash Flood	Johnstown	$1,000,000	A bean warehouse took on water from the 15 to 20 inches of rain that fell across portions of western Grand Forks county. The beans expanded and then blew out a wall.
April 2019	Flood	Johnstown	$50,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	$1,000	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Johnstown	-	Received a report of quarter sized hail via trained weather spotters.
July 2022	Funnel Cloud	Johnstown	-	A brief funnel cloud was observed by Grand Forks airport personnel at a point approximately 12-14 miles to their north northwest. The funnel dissipated about the time of their initial report.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	-	Numerous poplar and ash tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts across southern Levant Township.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Johnstown	-	Large trees were blown down in shelterbelts along county road 2.
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Johnstown	-	The funnel cloud was viewed from about 1 mile west of Johnston, looking north.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Johnstown	-	A sheriff's deputy reported a brief tornado touchdown 2.5 miles south and 1.75 east of Johnstown.
June 2010	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Johnstown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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 97000176 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand Forks County	All 79 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.