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US30 Cedar River Bridge (EB)

Linn County, Iowa

Photo 

© Iowa Department of Transportation; Taken for the FWHA

View this photo at iowadot.gov

BH Photo #426840

Map 

Street View 

Description 

First of it's kind built in Iowa

Facts 

Overview
Steel Continuous Welded I-Girder w/Floorbeams bridge over Cedar River on US 30
Location
Linn County, Iowa
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
https://www.thegazette.com/news/highway-30-eastbound-bridge-...
History
Built 1953
Builder
- Iowa Bridge Co. (1947-1967) of Des Moines, Iowa
Design
Steel Continuous Welded I-Girder w/Floorbeams
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 1,140.1 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.92600, -91.55062   (decimal degrees)
41°55'34" N, 91°33'02" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/620174/4642576 (zone/easting/northing)
Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
11,850
Inventory numbers
IA 33470 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 81487 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2018)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 59.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Built 1953 (344)
Built during 1950s (4,008)
Cedar River (Minnesota-Iowa) (136)
Continuous (2,633)
Deck girder (6,305)
Doomed (1,069)
Girder (11,173)
Have street view (28,916)
Iowa (6,793)
 Iowa Bridge Co. (1947-1967) (6)
Linn County, Iowa (251)
NR-eligible (4,109)
Open (40,969)
Owned by state (16,563)
Plate girder (8,728)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,421)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,997)
US 30 (128)

Update Log 

  • September 17, 2021: Updated by Luke: Doomed
  • May 5, 2018: New Street View added by Luke
  • May 4, 2018: New photo from Luke

Sources 

  • Luke
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Comments 

US30 Cedar River Bridge (EB)
Posted March 7, 2022, by Luke

The HAER documenation for the Wagon Wheel Bridge seems to support Robert's comments:

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/ia...

US30 Cedar River Bridge (EB)
Posted March 7, 2022, by Anonymous

Can you provide an article or something so we can properly split the categories?

Was it a different company or a reformation of the earlier company under new management?

US30 Cedar River Bridge (EB)
Posted March 7, 2022, by Richard Carlson (richard-j-carlson [at] uiowa [dot] edu)

Two separate and unrelated bridge companies based in Des Moines, Iowa, were both called the Iowa Bridge Company. Bridges built by the Iowa Bridge Company between about 1900 and the 1930s were built by a different company than the one that constructed this bridge. Any bridge attributed to the Iowa Bridge Company that was built between 1947, when the second company was formed, and about 1967, when it appears to have ceased operating, was built by the second company, not the first.