Bridgeport Bridge

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Facts 

Overview

Through truss bridge over Skunk River on Old Quarry Road

Location

Denmark, Lee County, Iowa

Status

Closed to all traffic

History

Built 1904

Builder

- Clinton Bridge & Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa

Design

Pennsylvania through truss

"The main span of this bridge may be the longest pinned truss remaining in Iowa and serves as a well-preserved example of a Pratt truss subtype - the Pennsylvania truss. The bridge is significant for its role in the development of regional transportation in the Lee and Des Moines county area.

"This document was prepared as part of the Iowa Historic Bridges Recording Project performed durng the Summer of 1995 by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). The project was sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT). Preliminary research on this bridge was performed by Clayton B. Fraser of Fraserdesign, Loveland, CO."

Historian: Robert W. Jackson, August 1995
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Dimensions

Length of largest span: 238.0 ft.
Total length: 293.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.

Recognition

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1998

Approximate latitude, longitude

+40.79036, -91.36417   (decimal degrees)
40°47'25" N, 91°21'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

15/638013/4516772 (zone/easting/northing)

Land survey

T. 69 N., R. 4 W.

USGS topographic map

Danville

Inventory numbers

NRHP 98000533 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 13816 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• September 10, 2008: New photos from J.R. Manning

Sources 

• HAER IA-61 - Bridgeport Bridge
• J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net

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