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Julien Dubuque Bridge
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Julien Dubuque US 20 Bridge
This beauty is an eye-catcher from any direction.
Photo taken by J.R. Manning in October 2007
BH Photo #109906
Facts
- Overview
- Steel through arch bridge over the Mississippi River on US 20 at Dubuque
- Location
- Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, and Jo Daviess County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1943; rehabilitated 1992
- Builders
- - Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff Corporation of Kansas City, Kansas (Designer)
- Ned L. Ashton of Iowa City, Iowa (Engineer)
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 845.2 ft.
Total length: 5,761.8 ft. (1.1 mi.)
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.9 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 27, 1999
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.49164, -90.65463 (decimal degrees)
42°29'30" N, 90°39'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/692740/4707030 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dubuque South
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 18,400
- Inventory numbers
- IA 23880 (Iowa bridge number)
IL 043-0001 (Illinois bridge number)
NRHP 99001034 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 13423 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of October 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 46.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 25, 2020: Updated by Nick Boppel: Fix map marker
- November 17, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- January 24, 2015: New photos from Jason Smith
- January 10, 2013: New photos from John Marvig
- July 8, 2012: New photos from Quinn Phelan
- April 26, 2012: New photo from Steve Conro
- March 20, 2011: New photo from J.R. Manning
- May 17, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- January 27, 2008: New photo from J.R. Manning
Related Bridges
- Dubuque Wagon Bridge (Predecessor) - The earlier bridge was upstream from the current bridge.
Sources
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- Historic Bridges of Iowa
- HABS IA-30-9 - Julien Dubuque Monument (Grave), Mississippi River Vicinity, Julien Dubuque Drive, Dubuque vicinity, Dubuque County, IA
- Nathan Holth
- Wikipedia
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Quinn Phelan - qphelan [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Website With Historical Photos
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- John Weeks Highways, Byways, And Bridge Photography
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Julien Dubuque Bridge
Yeah, they did do some work on the bridge last year including some painting.
Julien Dubuque Bridge
Just saw in the local paper today being 8-5-15 a picture of 2 guys and it looked like they were painting the bridge.Did this bridge get painted or was this picture taken many years ago?
Julien Dubuque Bridge?
I found to bridge passes for the Dubuque bridge, one was for a "team" and the other for an automobile, on the back it talks about not speeding on the bridge but there is no date on these passes can anyone tell me something of the time frame they were used.
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Although the new game Mafia III is intended to depict New Bordeaux, a fictional recreation of New Orleans in 1968, the likeness of the Julien Dubuque Bridge makes an appearance in the game. The portal bracing in the game is almost 100% identical to the Julien Dubuque Bridge, and the sway bracing (particular at the pier points) as well as the concrete pier's inset arched design are strikingly similar as well.