Rattlesnake Creek Bridge

The Rattlesnake Creek Bridge brings a Cuming County, Nebraska county road over Rattlesnake Creek, 2.8 miles northwest of Bancroft. It was built in 1903 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

Rattlesnake Creek Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Bancroft, Nebraska
Coordinates	42.044272°N 96.613588°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1903
Built by	Standard Bridge Co.; Carnegie Steel Co.
Architectural style	Pratt half-hip pony truss
MPS	Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS
NRHP reference No.	92000743[1]
Added to NRHP	June 29, 1992

The road was gravel-surfaced in 1992.[2]

It is a steel Pratt half-hip pony truss bridge, and the oldest known example of this type designed by the Standard Bridge Company of Omaha and built throughout eastern Nebraska. The bridge is 92 feet (28 m) long in total, with a single span of 60 feet (18 m) and a roadway width of 15.7 feet (4.8 m).[3]

It was one of 60 new or rebuilt bridges in a bridge-building program started in 1903 by Cuming County. The Standard Bridge Company had an annual contract with Cuming, Wayne, Thurston, Stanton, Dodge and Burt counties and built hundreds of half-hip truss bridges during 1900-1920; this one is the oldest documented example.[2]

• 
  2010 photo
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  lower connection example

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Carl W. McWilliams (June 30, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Rattlesnake Creek Bridge / NEHBS Number CMOO-58". National Park Service. Retrieved June 15, 2017. With photo from 1989.
3. McWilliams, Carl W. (1991-06-30). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Rattlesnake Creek Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-02-22. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• Media related to Rattlesnake Creek Bridge (Cuming County, Nebraska) at Wikimedia Commons