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Nodaway River Bridge is located west of
Grant, Iowa Grant is a city in Montgomery County, Iowa, United States. The population was 86 at the time of the 2020 census. History Grant is named for Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States. Its commercial district, which was developed from ...
, United States. It spans an arm of a small pond in Pilot Grove County Park for . The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors accepted a petition from S. M. Smith to build a bridge over the Nodaway River south of Grant in June 1876, and another bridge over the
Nishnabotna River The Nishnabotna River () is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna Riv ...
at the same time. The county contracted with the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of
Leavenworth, Kansas Leavenworth () is the county seat and largest city of Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 37,351. It is located on the west bank of t ...
, to design and build the Nodaway River bridge, which was completed later the same year for $1,000. The bridge consists of a single-span Bowstring arch-truss with a wood deck. It remained in use as a road bridge until 1968, when it was moved to the park for use as a pedestrian bridge. Even though it is no longer in its historic location and used for its historic function, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 as an example of early transportation development in Iowa.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Iowa. Bridges Notes References {{HAER list, structure=bridge *List *List Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern reg ...


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* Bridges completed in 1876 Transportation buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Iowa Arch bridges in Iowa Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Iowa Relocated buildings and structures in Iowa Tied arch bridges in the United States {{Iowa-bridge-struct-stub