Historic Bridges of the U.S. | Waverly Junction Bridge

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Overall View Of Bridge And Shell Rock River, Looking Northeast

Photo taken by Clayton B. Fraser, Fraserdesign, October 1991, for HAER

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Overall View Of Bridge And County Road, Looking Southeast

Photo taken by Clayton B. Fraser, Fraserdesign, October 1991, for HAER

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Overall View Of Bridge, With Timber Stringer West Approach In Foreground, Looking East

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View Of South Web And West Portal Of Bridge, Looking Northeast

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View Of South Web And East Portal Of Bridge, Looking North

Photo taken by Clayton B. Fraser, Fraserdesign, October 1991, for HAER

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Facts

Overview

Lost Bridge over Shell Rock River on 265th Street in Waverly

Location

Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa

Status

Replaced by new bridge

History

Built 1911; Replaced 2001

Builder

- Waterloo Construction Co.

Design

"The structure today is comprised of a single 150-foot Parker through truss, approached on the west by a series of timeber stringer spans. This creates an aggregate structure length of 280 feet.

"Fabricated and erected in 1911, the Waverly Junction Bridge (called locally Dix's Bridge) ranks among Iowa's earliest rigid-connected highway trusses. The structure's concrete-filled steel cylinder piers, curved portal knee braces, and threaded-rod lateral bracing are typical features of pinned trusses generally built prior to 1910. The composition of the bridge's web members, their connecting gusset plates and the method of field-bolting, on the other hand, are representative of early rigid-connected trusses. These features distinguish the Waverly Junction Bridge as a transitional between the two technologies: a significant and uncommon structure in Iowa's bridge building history.

"The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation for the Waverly Junction Bridge was conducted by Fraserdesign of Loveland, Colorado, under contract with Bremer County, Iowa. The county has proposed replacement of the structure and this recordation is intended to mitigate in part the impact on the bridge by this action."

Carl W. McWilliams
Fraserdesign
Loveland, Colorado
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Dimensions

Length of largest span: 150 ft.
Total length: 280 ft.
Deck width: 16 ft.

Also called

Dix's Bridge

Approximate latitude, longitude

+42.66944, -92.52222 (decimal degrees)
42°40'10" N, 92°31'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

15/539151/4724218 (zone/easting/northing)

USGS topographic map

Jackson Township UTM: 15.539975.4723580

Inventory number

BH 37263 (Bridgehunter.com ID)