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Overall View Of Bridge And Stream, Looking Northwest

Photo by Clayton B. Fraser, September 1990, for HAER

Overview: Lost welded steel arch bridge over Farmers Creek on Bellevue Cascade Road in Cottonville
Location: Cottonville, Jackson County, Iowa
Status: Replaced by new bridge
History: Built 1946; replaced 1993
Design: "The Cottonville Bridge is among Iowa's earliest extant examples of welded bridge construction. It is a simply supported, single-span tied arch structure that combines elements that are both anachronistic and innovative. Its arched configuration resembles an updated version of the venerable bowstring arch-truss built widely on Iowa's roads in the 1870s and 1880s. Its extensive use of welded connections at a time in which welded technology was in its formative stages, however, marks the bridge as a sophisticated design exercise."
Carl W. McWilliams and Clayton B. Fraser
Fraserdesign
Loveland, Colorado, March 1991
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Dimensions: Span length: 50.0 ft.
Total length: 50.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +42.24146, -90.73295 (decimal degrees)
42°14'29" N, 90°43'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/687044/4679074 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Fulton
Inventory number: BH 37364 (Bridgehunter.com ID)