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Overview
Three span through truss bridge over Cedar River on CR F14
Location
Johnson County, Iowa
Status
One span destroyed by flooding
History
Built 1897-98; destroyed by flooding June 13, 2008
Builders
- Fair-Williams Bridge & Manufacturing Co. (fabrication)
- George W. Wynn (designer)
- J.R. Sheely & Co. (contractor)
Design
Three pin-connected, 11-panel Parker through trusses
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 214.5 ft.
Total length: 825 ft.
Deck width: 16 ft.
Also called
Sutliff's Ferry Bridge (original name)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.83954, -91.39231   (decimal degrees)
41°50'22" N, 91°23'32" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory number
BH 36704 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

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19th Century (1,760)
Built 1898 (77)
Built during 1890s (666)
Fair-Williams Bridge & Manufacturing Co. (1)
George W. Wynn (1)
Iowa (2,130)
J.R. Sheely & Co. (1)
Johnson County, Iowa (24)
Parker truss (419)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,003)
Through truss (5,275)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,002)
Truss (15,829)

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Sutliff Bridge
Posted June 26, 2008, by Chad Kelham (ckelham [at] ballstate [dot] bsu [dot] edu)

It saddens me that one of Iowa's more historical through truss bridges had to be sacrificed to all the recent flooding; the Sutliff bridge from what I saw was one of the best through trusses around.